Bridging dimension mismatches: Connecting granular revenue to summary-level OPEX

Started by Prithika · 1 month, 3 weeks ago · 1 reply · 117 views
Prithika Participant
1 month, 3 weeks ago

One common modeling hurdle in connected P&L planning is dimensional mismatch.

Your commercial revenue plan often runs at deep granularity (Business Unit, Region, Channel, Store, Product), while OPEX is budgeted strictly by Business Unit and Cost Centre. Scaling revenue growth rates up to the Business Unit level and using them to drive the corresponding OPEX forecast can become challenging when revenue and OPEX are planned across different dimensional structures

Rather than flattening your sales data or keeping the models disconnected, you can use Infobridge to aggregate top-line growth rates up to the Business Unit level and drive OPEX lines dynamically - so when revenue assumptions change, cost projections follow automatically, while still allowing planners to override the calculated OPEX assumptions where needed.

How does your team currently connect forecast assumptions across different dimensional models within a connected planning model?

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Director CPM Solutions · NoseDat · 1 month ago

I am starting to get the benefits of InfoBridge as the maybe the "hidden gem" in Fabric Planning. Currently working with Planning in Power BI vendors, this is done on Azure SQL by views + stored procedures. Super performant, but it requires a developer, a business owner and a translator in between... looks this can be done now by the Controller directly

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