macs AI & Data Science
Manage smarter with macs AI – Your Intelligent management accounting assistant
Streamline your controlling processes with the powerful macs AI and make faster, more confident business decisions. Our advanced AI models analyze both internal and external data to generate accurate sales forecasts and deliver actionable KPIs for your strategic planning.
Benefit from automated correlation analyses, anomaly detection, and deviation alerts that uncover hidden patterns, optimize workflows, and reduce manual errors. The integrated macs Copilot also acts as your intelligent assistant for all controlling-related queries and helps you navigate the macs software efficiently—reliable, effective, and always at your service.
Your Benefits at a glance
- Accelerate Your Planning Process: Save valuable time as our models automatically deliver reliable planning figures enable you to focus on strategy instead of spreadsheets.
- Identify Root Causes: Instantly Gain immediate insights into relationships between costs, revenues, and external factors with automated data correlation analysis.
- Avoid Costly Errors: Our AI alerts you to illogical or inaccurate data before it impacts your planning to minimize risks and improve data quality.
- Stay on Top of Your Finances: Critical deviations are detected and flagged in real time, helping you maintain full control.
- Quick Answers, No More Searching: The integrated Copilot instantly responds to your questions about the software and controlling topics - efficient, accurate, and always available.
AI-Powered Sales Forecasting for Strategic Sales Planning
The forecasting function of our models supports your sales and budget planning by analyzing relevant internal and external data sources. By identifying trends, seasonality, and patterns, our AI delivers reliable forecast values that integrate seamlessly into your planning process—ensuring informed decisions and greater planning accuracy. Multiple algorithms enable scenario modeling based on cutting-edge AI technology, enhanced with proven statistical methods. Additionally, our AI uses web scraping to automatically analyze relevant market and competitive data. The integrated forecasts allow you to systematically validate your targets, improve sales estimate accuracy, and reduce overall planning effort.
Controlling Benefits:
- More efficient budgeting and demand planning
- Early detection of upward or downward trends
- Automated plan integration ensures consistent data quality
Reveal Business-Critical Insights with Descriptive Statistics & Data Mining
Using descriptive statistics and data mining, you can uncover complex dependencies within your business processes. For instance, understand how machine maintenance contracts affect repair costs, how energy prices influence raw material purchasing, or how weather impacts sales volumes. You’ll also detect patterns such as the correlation between bankruptcy rates and bad debts.
Controlling Benefits:
- Data-driven insights over gut feelings
- Improved risk and cost management
- Smart KPIs for targeted process optimization
Automatic Detection of Data Errors with AI-Based Anomaly Detection
A key pillar of modern data analytics, anomaly detection identifies unusual or outlying patterns in your datasets that deviate from the norm. These anomalies can indicate errors, rare events, or potential risks. Our anomaly detection model continuously learns complex patterns and monitors both master and transactional data like inconsistencies in bills of materials, recipes, or work plans.
Controlling Benefits:
- Early warning system for inconsistent data
- Prevention of booking and calculation errors
- Higher data quality for reliable analyses Optimization of operational processes
Deviation Alerts for Liquidity and Cost Control
Our deviation alerts trigger immediate notifications in response to liquidity- and cost-relevant events: misbooked invoices, unauthorized cash discounts, rising default rates, or extended payment terms—even in connection with currency fluctuations.
Controlling Benefits:
- Rapid identification of critical booking errors
- Profit-optimized management of discounts and payment terms
- Proactive liquidity management through currency and market monitoring
macs Copilot: Your AI-Powered Controlling Advisor
macs Copilot combines advanced chat and NLP technology (RASA & ChatGPT) with your company manual and knowledge base. It answers a wide range of questions—from how specific controlling processes work to how to operate the macs software.
Controlling Benefits:
- Instant answers, no time-consuming searches
- Consistent handling of all controlling applications
- Fast onboarding and quick problem-solving
Automated Reports & Dashboards for Data-Driven Decisions
Visuals and KPIs generated by macs AI and data science modules are automatically integrated into dashboards and made report-ready—visually engaging and prepared for distribution. Our system handles data collection, visualization, and delivery to enable transparent reports and smarter business control.
Controlling Benefits:
- Time savings through automation
- Consistent presentation of relevant KPIs
- Better clarity for management reports and board meetings