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Apptio Planning

Custom Unique Fields for priorization activities

We want managers to rank lines in their department from 1...n. e.g. Manager from department xyz would use identifiers "xyz-001, xyz-002, xyz-003, ..." to assign to each line item. Each code must only be used once (and in best case, as this would b...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Adding additional decimal places to adjustment percentage on labor tab

Currently on the labor tab, you are able to export the labor tab and adjust the number of decimal places that are exported from the adjustment % columns. however when you import, there is a limit of 4 decimal places. I am requesting that this get ...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Allow greater flexibility for labor planning by allowing for flexible schedules by month, for example, by giving the ability to spread cost based upon number of Sundays in a month.

This would be useful because currently I have the 4 week versus 5 week months and I can only get around this by creating a report and importing the report into external financials. This prevents me from doing some analysis by person since my costs...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Filtered import to include existing and planned

With the new filtered import we would like to see the ability to filter on the labor tab for existing and planned to then use the replace all functionality.
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Allow Admin Users to change the system-generated Line Item Codes in Planning Actuals so they can align them to Budget lines

Our Finance team is currently tagging actuals against budget lines in a different project before using the ADM to ingest the data into Planning. However, when new fields or schemas are introduced, it generates multiple system-generated line item c...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add possibility to eliminate the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value

It would be great if there will be added a possibility to eliminate ( filter out) the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value. Unfortunately, there is no other possibility at this time other than manually deleting line items within Planning and...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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