Features of ABIS~PRO

Functional Features :

  1. Software structured on the model expounded by CAM-I. Allows definition of activities, resources, cost elements, drivers, performance measures, products, cost objects and customers

  2. Tight integration with financial accounting and other systems. Allows for modification of FAS data for cost purposes. Reconciliation between FAS and cost data is ensured at all levels.
  3. Facilitates roll up of account codes into cost elements and cost elements into Cost element groups.
  4. Drivers can be defined for allocation of resources / cost elements / activities as given below:
    • Department to Activity
    • Activity to Activity
    • Activity to Products
    • Activity to customers
    • Activity to Product segments
    • Activity to customer segments

  5. Unique drivers can be attached to each cost element within an activity/ resource. Multistage allocation of costs possible. The drivers can be basic or weighted.

  6. Multiple routes (Bill of activities) can be defined for each product. Hence a product can have multiple cost objects depending upon the sequence of activities required to produce and market the same.

  7. Multiple views of activity costs - Hierarchy level, Process level, short term variability views etc facilitating operational ABMs

  8. Takes activity costs to the desk of the process and activity owners enabling learning and improvement

  9. Package is flexible to serve the needs of both Manufacturing and Service Organizations.

  10. Takes into account the capacity utilisation of various resources and provides the cost of unused capacity. Analysis of capacity into productive, unproductive and idle capacity with reasons therefore, is possible.

  11. Easy to install and implement. Additions of activities / products/ drivers/ routes etc. can be made by the User with ease.

  12. Strategies can be defined and linked to performance measures at the activity levels. Data from ABC system can be easily imported for Scorecard systems.

  13. Multi dimensional analysis of profits - across periods, locations, product and product families, customer and customer families facilitating Strategic ABM

Technical features :

  1. ABIS~PRO readily supports both, Oracle 8i or higher/ SQL Server 2000 or higher.

  2. Provides GUI interface with Multi user environment based on client server technology. 
  3. Has provision for selective user privileges for each screen.
  4. Provision for exporting reports to MS excel, word, PDF etc. Supports data imports from external systems. 
  5. Provision for data imports from other operational systems, ERP systems and ODBC data sources 

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