PITTSBURGH, PA, August 26, 2011 – SCA Technologies, the leading Intelligent Cost Management Solutions provider, today announced that the company has released SCAnalyzer 2.0. As the next generation of SCA’s cornerstone software suite, SCAplanner™, SCAnalyzer 2.0 is loaded with new features and improvements. This new version includes highly configurable business processes by role and organization requirements, supports different methods of budgeting, offers multi-user collaboration, has robust basic and advanced reporting, improved data uploading and validation and enriched, highly secure web-based technology.
SCAnalyzer 2.0 provides forward-looking planning and forecasting for costs and operations in one unified, enterprise framework. The list of upgrades is led by enhanced reporting, usability and analytics. New features make it easier for manufacturing and purchasing managers to plan, track and collaborate on future operations planning, and compare variance-to-budget that will highlight opportunities for improvement.
SCAnalyzer 2.0 enhances collaboration by providing business-process driven tasks structure, context-associated messaging and configurable shared spaces. The upcoming product gives users from multiple entities like corporate business units, plants, suppliers, distribution centers and warehouses controlled visibility into their data. They will have access to enterprise-level operations and financial forecasting and planning; have the ability to track actuals against plan and review trend analysis and benchmarks to proactively develop a future plan of action.
“SCA is excited to introduce this next generation of our web-based cost management and optimization software. It includes functionality that our customers told us would enhance their financial and operations planning processes. The collaboration capability that the software provides makes all the difference in building an enterprise-wide business process to manage cost of goods and margins,” said SCA Technologies CEO and President Samarth Sarthi.
“Each team member has visibility into the plan, forecasts and actuals, can participate in updating their data, share the information with operational managers for input and work toward building an upcoming operations plan. We asked our customers to tell us how we could make their business processes more efficient and we built the newest functionality according to what they told us would be most beneficial to them,” Sarthi added.
About SCA Technologies
Since 1999, our predictive cost modeling, optimization and cost management capabilities have helped our clients reduce their delivered cost of goods sold (COGS) by 3% - 5%, saving over $250 million each year. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies such as McDonald’s, NCR, Church’s Chicken, Bama Companies, Baldinger Bakery and H. J. Heinz. Led by a management team of highly experienced professionals from prominent companies like Xerox, Mobil, JD Edwards, PWC, Heinz and Cartesis, SCA is the only company that combines an integrative and collaborative approach with a powerful “total cost-to-serve” methodology. SCA Technologies is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA with offices in Chicago, IL and Delhi, India.
For more information, call 412.937.0600 or visit us at www.scatech.com.
