Understanding Real-Time Activity-Based Management

You can start working on a Real-Time Activity Based Management model in the following ways:

• Create objects, activities, cost objects, and drivers using Real-Time ABM from scratch without looking at what you have in batch ABM.

• Prepare the data from an existing batch ABM model.

• Create batch resources in Real-Time ABM, but use the assigned (mapped) costs for those resources from the ABM_LEDMAP table.

The Real-Time Activity-Based Management component simplifies the often complex network model cost development process by letting you graphically define the business process, the role of performers that perform these business processes, the standard time to perform one unit of each activity or business process, and other activity details, and then calculate and analyze the Activity-Based Management results immediately instead of waiting for an engine to run.

What-if modeling lets you modify the Activity-Based Management model and reflect business re-engineering almost instantaneously. In other words, you can calculate and analyze Activity-Based Management model results and see the effect of changes to model data in real time. After entering the resources, activities, their association, and then defining how activities consume the resources (driver data), clicking Calculate displays the calculated results. After analyzing these results, you can modify the driver data for what-if planning, delete or insert objects, change driver quantities, or change the volume of activities or cost objects, and then click Calculate again. You can continue doing this until you are satisfied with the results.