Capex planning softwarefor evaluating competing requests on consistent criteria.

Capex planning software turns competing investment requests into one agreed capex plan. Every candidate is evaluated on the same criteria, which gives one comparable view across sites and business units. Trade-offs against available funding are visible before capital is committed, so the plan can be defended instead of being decided by submission order.

In Weissr, capex planning is a capability of Weissr Capex Management, not a separate product. The platform has three modules: Capex Strategy, Capital Budgeting and Capex Management. Planning runs inside the third, alongside approvals and execution tracking, so the plan the organisation agrees on is the same record the projects are approved and followed up on.

The plan goes to the body that owns the decision. Once approved, it sets the priorities for the year. Individual approvals then move faster, because each project is checked against a plan that has already been agreed.

A capex plan is the agreed set of capital investments an organisation intends to make over a defined period, with their timing, cost profile and expected benefit. It sits between long-term capital strategy and the approval and execution of individual projects.

Effective prioritisation compares each candidate on the same criteria: the strategic objective it serves, the risk of not doing it, its cost profile, its dependency on other investments and its expected return. In Weissr every request is assessed on those same criteria, so the decisions behind the plan can be explained and defended.

Compliance and safety investments are classified as mandatory, so the share of the envelope they take is visible before any strategic choice is made. They are flagged, not reserved from the envelope, because a mandatory investment can still be postponed to next year and left out of this year's budget. A site's long-term role also matters. If its future is under review, even mandatory investments there may be questioned.