Predictive Forecasting: SAP + QuickBooks
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads SAP and QuickBooks together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with SAP and QuickBooks work for a small business?
askotter reads SAP and QuickBooks side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From SAP
- Financial accounting, Inventory and materials management, Production planning.
- From QuickBooks
- Income and expense data, Accounts receivable/payable, Cash flow statements.
- Status
- QuickBooks is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing SAP or QuickBooks. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads SAP and QuickBooks side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our digital marketing services work.
How SAP and QuickBooks records line up
SAP and QuickBooks both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
SAP and QuickBooks both keep a company record. The match runs on the company's web domain first and falls back to a cleaned company name.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the company or account.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From SAP that means order history by material and region. From QuickBooks it means monthly revenue and expenses by category.
QuickBooks is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
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SAP on its own
SAP holds the booked order, the invoice and the customer master. It has no record of the marketing that produced the order.
Timing. SAP data usually reaches outside systems in scheduled extracts, so it runs as current as the extract schedule your ERP team sets.
Access. Read-only OData services or scheduled exports set up with your ERP team.
QuickBooks on its own
QuickBooks sees what was billed and paid. It has no idea which marketing produced the customer.
Timing. QuickBooks shows revenue when invoices and sales receipts are entered, which can trail the sale in a busy month.
Access. The QuickBooks Online Accounting API with read-only OAuth access.
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