Operational Performance Management (OPM) Solutions
We align your sustainability, sales, production, project, and people plans with your financial goals to ensure flawless execution and superior performance. Turn your operational data into strategic decisions. Spend more time managing your business and less time maintaining planning processes.
Is There a Disconnect Between Strategy and Operations in Your Organization?
- Operational plans that do not reflect the reality of the business.
- Lack of visibility regarding resources, projects, or key personnel.
- Slow decision-making due to scattered or unreliable data.
- Disconnected systems and processes across finance, operations, HR, and sales.
- Operational risks that are detected too late.
Our OPM (Operating Performance Management) solutions are designed to eliminate these problems and align each operational area with the business and financial strategy.
Our Custom OPM Solutions
Strategic Oversight, Coordination, and Implementation. We help you integrate your operational plans into a unified EPM environment, creating a cross-functional view that enhances your efficiency and collaboration by directly linking the initiatives and forecasts of functional areas (sales, marketing, HR, production, etc.) to their financial impact.
ESG Reporting (Sustainability Reports)
Regulatory pressure, investor expectations, and social awareness have increased the importance of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting. With our solutions, companies can:
- Establish and model key sustainability indicators (ESG KPIs) aligned with frameworks such as the CSRD, while ensuring interoperability with other standard sustainability reporting frameworks such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, or SFDR.
- Integrate financial and non-financial data into a single planning and reporting model.
- Automate the collection of ESG information from various departments and systems.
- Measuring and Forecasting IROs (Impacts, Risks, and Opportunities) in Sustainability
- Present environmental, social, and governance impacts in a clear and traceable manner.
This facilitates regulatory compliance, enhances transparency, and improves corporate reputation.
Sales Plan (Sales and Business Planning)
Accurate sales forecasting is the foundation for sound business planning. Implementing a Sales Plan solution allows you to:
- Set sales targets by product, channel, region, or customer.
- Integrate historical data, market projections, and strategic objectives.
- Set quotas and performance metrics for sales teams.
- Simulate the impact of different pricing strategies, promotions, or business expansion.
- Improve collaboration and motivation within the sales team
The result is dynamic sales planning, integrated with financial and operational planning, which enables the company to respond quickly to market changes.
Manufacturing Plan (Production Planning)
Efficient production planning is key to ensuring product availability, minimizing costs, and improving profitability. Through EPM Manufacturing solutions, we help operational departments to:
- Model production capacity by plant, line, or shift.
- Estimate the necessary inputs (raw materials, components, labor, etc.)
- Align the projected demand (Sales Plan) with available resources.
- Simulate supply scenarios and bottlenecks.
- Monitor production costs and variances in real time.
This helps improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and align production with the business strategy.
Project Plan (Project Planning)
Whether in the service, construction, technology, or manufacturing sectors, planning and monitoring strategic projects is essential. OPM Solutions will enable you to:
- Plan milestones, deliverables, resources, and budgets for each project.
- Integrate project implementation with the financial and operational model.
- Monitor actual progress versus planned progress and analyze variances.
- Evaluate the profitability of each individual project.
As a result, organizations gain greater control, visibility, and decision-making capacity over their key initiatives.
People Plan (People and Talent Planning)
Human capital is a key factor in the success of any strategy. Automating this business process using workforce planning solutions allows you to:
- Estimate staffing needs based on the business plan and projects.
- Assess the impacts of salary increases and the implementation of human talent management plans.
- Plan labor costs (fixed and variable) by area, role, or location.
- Model future organizational structures and analyze key financial indicators.
- Integrate HR data with financial, sales, and production planning.
- Centralize data and obtain key HR-related KPIs, such as the number of employees by gender and job category, age distribution, training hours, accident rates, etc.
This makes it possible to ensure that teams are aligned with strategic needs, optimize the workforce, and anticipate talent-related risks (turnover, shortages, training, etc.).
OPM Consultant with Strategic Vision and a Technical Focus
Going beyond technology to truly transform your operations requires a partner who understands processes.
- Comprehensive Approach: We specialize in connecting finance, operations, and people. The result is a complete, seamless view of your business, drawing on our functional, financial, and technical expertise.
- Process Expertise: We don't just implement software. We redesign and optimize your planning processes to make them more agile, collaborative, and efficient.
- Leading Technology Partners: We work with the best platforms on the market (Oracle, OneStream, Jedox), ensuring a robust, scalable solution tailored to your needs.
- Results-Oriented Approach: Our goal is to help you make better decisions, optimize your resources, and identify risks and opportunities before your competitors do.
Our customers' trust.
Who is this service intended for?
Our OPM solutions are designed for leaders like you who drive execution and efficiency within the company:
that seek to align production and resources with demand.
who need reliable forecasts and plans linked to their finances.
who want to integrate the operational perspective into the financial model.
that must comply with regulations and manage non-financial data.
who need to monitor the profitability and implementation of initiatives.
that plan for talent and labor costs based on strategy.
which provides unprecedented insight into the drivers of business performance.
Transform Your Business's Operational Execution
The OPM solutions Nova’s solutions allow you to align plans, people, and processes with strategic objectives. Integrate all your operations into a unified model that accelerates decision-making and improves your profitability.
Frequently Asked Questions About Operational Performance Management (OPM)
What is Operational Performance Management (OPM)?
It is the process of planning, executing, and measuring the operations of a company by aligning them with its strategic objectives. It implies tools, data, and processes that connect day-to-day operations with the long-term vision.
How does OPM differ from FPM?
FPM focuses on financial planning, while OPM (Operating Performance Management) focuses on operational execution: people, production, sales, sustainability, and projects. The two complement each other within an EPM environment.
What tangible benefits can I expect from implementing OPM with Nova?
Beyond the technology, you’ll see a direct impact on your business:
- Faster decisions: Simulate scenarios in minutes, not weeks.
- Greater coordination: All departments work with the same data and objectives.
- Resource Optimization: Allocate your budget, staff, and production capacity where they truly generate the most value.
- Full visibility: Understand how your daily operations impact the income statement.
Risk Mitigation: Anticipate operational problems before they occur.
Can I integrate OPM with financial or HR tools?
Yes. Nova’s OPM solutions are designed to integrate with your current systems (ERP, CRM, HR, etc.).
Our operational data isn't standardized. Is that a problem?
No, quite the opposite. Part of our job is to help you define key performance indicators (KPIs) and establish a robust data model that harmonizes information from your different departments, creating a single source of truth for decision-making.
Our operational data is stored in different systems (ERP, CRM, HR, etc.). How do you integrate it?
That is precisely one of the cornerstones of our work. We don’t expect your data to be perfect. Our solutions are designed to Connect to your current systems and centralize relevant information. We handle harmonize the data to create a single, reliable source of truth, eliminating reliance on spreadsheets and manual errors.
The new ESG regulations (CSRD) are a priority. How does your solution help?
Our module ESG Reporting It is specifically designed to address this challenge. We help you:
- Define and automate the collection of your sustainability KPIs.
- Ensure compliance with frameworks such as CSRD, GRI, or SASB.
Integrate non-financial data into your financial planning to measure the real impact of your sustainability initiatives.
I don't need all the OPM modules right now. Can I start with just one?
Of course! In fact, it’s the most common approach. Our solutions are 100% modular. We can start by solving your most pressing challenge, whether it be sales planning (Sales Plan), sustainability reporting (ESG) or project management (Project Plan), and then expand the platform as your business grows and your needs evolve.
Which industries benefit from an OPM solution?
Manufacturing, retail, professional services, construction, energy, technology, logistics… Any organization that wants to execute its strategy more effectively.
Why do I need a consulting firm like Nova? Can't I just buy the software?
Software is just a tool, but the real value lies in how it adapts to your business processes. Buying the technology directly is like buy a Formula 1 car without a team of engineers.
Our role as expert consultants is precisely this:
- We understand your business: First, we analyze and optimize your operational planning processes.
- We tailor the tool to your needs: We configure the solution to meet your specific business rules, so you don’t have to adapt to a generic tool.
We ensure success: We guide you through change management and adoption to ensure that your team gets 100% of the value from your investment.
Once it's implemented, will the solution remain static, or will you help us improve it?
Implementation is just the beginning of our relationship. Your business is dynamic, and your planning tool should be, too. That’s why our service continuous improvement is designed to support you over the long term.
We help you refine the solution so it adapts to new challenges, such as entry into new markets, the launch of new products or the need for more sophisticated analyses. We make sure that your platform Don’t let it become obsolete and that it continues to generate value year after year.