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CFO Journal: Finance 2025: Operating Models, Data Integration, ERP, and the Workforce

Does your company have a streamlined finance data infrastructure that can help you take advantage of advanced technologies and deliver insights? Finance data serves as a core foundational component of other accelerants, such as extracting an increasingly sophisticated level of business insights that can drive corporate strategy and are also relevant to stakeholders. This will require a comprehensive driver-based data architecture that tells the full back story and doesn’t just report on the outcomes without the underlying causes.”

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CFO Journal: 2025 Finance Predictions: The Pandemic Effect

“As real-time information moves closer to reality, and business analysis grows increasingly automated, finance will likely bolster its efficiency by offloading some responsibilities to captive locations, centers of excellence, and outsourcing vendors—all of which may be held to a higher standard. Lower costs can enable the function to invest in work that is building enterprise value.”

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SF Magazine: The Four Levers of Revenue Management

4 key levers of revenue management modified from the Dupont ROI Framework:

  1. Pricing Basis
  2. Inventory Allocation
  3. Product Configuration
  4. Duration Control

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IndustryWeek: Manufacturing CEOs Share What’s Keeping Them Up at Night

2 out of the 5 current pain points for manufacturing CEOs:

  1. Global supply chain disruptions
  2. Commodity and raw material prices

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