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Headquartered in Langfang, Hebei, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation(CPPE) has established six domestic branches in Shenyang, Shanghai, Zhuhai, Urumqi, Xi'an, and Chengdu, along with two overseas branches in Abu Dhabi and Thailand. It is a large multinational engineering survey and design consultancy with comprehensive Class-A qualifications in both engineering design and survey.
Founded in 1970, CPPE has undertaken over 80% of China's large-scale oil and gas pipeline and gas storage facility survey and design projects. The company specializes in long-distance pipeline engineering, oil and gas storage engineering, oilfield surface construction, and urban gas engineering. Its integrated services include consultancy, feasibility studies, preliminary design, detailed design, survey, and pipeline storage/transport technology research.
As a national industry leader, CPPE consistently provides cutting-edge technical support for pipeline survey and design in China. It has participated in the construction of all four of China’s major energy corridors. The company has been ranked among the top 60 Chinese engineering design enterprises for 12 consecutive years, among the top 100 survey and design firms for 17 consecutive years, and among the top 200 international design firms (ENR) for 13 consecutive years. Nineteen of its projects have been recognized as new records for Chinese enterprises.
▌ Project Overview
With the continuous expansion of CPPE’s operations, the need for comprehensive budget management to support corporate strategy implementation has become increasingly urgent. To effectively implement group-wide budget management, CPPE established an integrated "four-in-one" budget management system guided by strategic goals, driven by business processes, enabled by comprehensive budgeting, and reinforced by performance evaluation.
CPPE aimed to collaborate with Intcube to build a unified digital platform for group-wide budget management. This platform redefines organizational activities, processes, business models, and employee capabilities. Based on business-finance integration, it enables evidence-based analysis of market conditions and policy trends, supports value-driven resource allocation and operational adjustments, facilitates the scientific setting of operational targets and performance indicators, and enhances control, supervision, evaluation, and incentive management.
▌ Unified Platform Promoting Business-Finance Integration
The project covers an end-to-end comprehensive budgeting solution from underlying technology to application platforms. Focusing on the comprehensive budget management system and tailored to CPPE’s realities and management needs, it drives operational innovation with a emphasis on business-finance integration.
● Advancing Strategic Implementation: Fully implement comprehensive budget management group-wide with a "four-in-one" system oriented by strategic objectives, centered on business operations, enabled by budgeting tools, and secured through performance appraisal.
● Building an Integrated Business-Finance Platform: Transition offline budgeting online, fully mirroring user business scenarios. Incorporate multi-perspective historical data and multidimensional views to establish an integrated data processing model for budget reporting, financial management, and operational management.
● Ensuring Real-Time Data: Using Intcube Booster, ensure the integrity, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of business-finance data throughout collection, consolidation, transformation, storage, and application. Enable real-time data refresh and promote regularized management of financial analysis data.
● Shortening the Budget Cycle: Move offline budget compilation online, using process variables to accelerate efficiency. Refine process management; the system shortens the budget cycle and improves reporting efficiency through automated reminders, resolving previous issues such as high communication costs and slow progress.
● Unifying Data Standards: Standardize data pathways and criteria. Break down barriers between multiple business systems while ensuring data accuracy. Achieve bidirectional integration with Puyuan Financial Sharing System and interface with FMIS, project initiation platform, AD domain, Enterprise WeChat, group budget system, vehicle management system, contract system, decision support system, and others. Integrate data from different calibers to ensure system diversity, fundamentally solving earlier challenges of inconsistent data sourcing and manual data reorganization by financial staff.
▌ Three Core Applications Strengthening the Digital Foundation
To meet CPPE’s requirements, Intcube EPM established a bottom-up budget reporting system based on project management, incorporating departmental expenses, staff salaries, administrative costs, and other financial needs. Extending from annual budget data to rolling forecasts and actual-versus-budget analysis, it formed three key applications on a unified big data technology platform: the Comprehensive Budget System, Execution Control System, and Intelligent Analysis System.
Comprehensive Budget Management System
Leveraging multidimensional database capabilities, Intcube EPM stores data from different calibers, uses business rules for real-time budget result computation, employs process management to streamline budget approval, and applies data block locking or permission controls for version switching and revision tracking. This meets CPPE’s comprehensive needs for budget management, project management, financial analysis, and market development on an integrated business-finance platform.
● Budget Management: Covers annual budgeting, full project-cycle budgeting, rolling forecasts, and cumulative actuals.
● Project Management: Spans project initiation, revenue, cost, receipts, payments, progress, full cost allocation, status tracking, and closure.
● Financial Analysis: Displays key financial indicators such as operating revenue, cost, and total profit—both budgeted and actual—via balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, providing real-time insight into financial and operational conditions.
● Market Development: Dynamically tracks business development performance based on newly signed contracts and fulfillment progress.
Execution Control System
Supports all processes across group business departments, reducing offline manual operations, saving approval time, and improving efficiency and data accuracy. Functions include project initiation, invoice issuance, fund receipts/payments, banking operations, project income/expenditure, full cost accounting, and internal transaction settlement.
● Uses execution control document templates to simplify complex declarations and prevent omitted information.
● Accelerates business approvals through process variable links and resolves cross-entity accounting issues.
● Integrates with budget management, fully migrating offline reporting processes and generating additional decision-support data.
Intelligent Analysis System
Intcube EPM employs various analytical methods—statistical charts, report queries, ad-hoc analysis, reporting analytics, executive dashboards, and map analysis—to support multiple scenarios. It enables budget-actual comparison, trend analysis, proportion analysis, and key indicator tracking, allowing executives to monitor KPIs, project managers to track progress, and department heads to review relevant expenses in real time.
● Uses bar charts, pie charts, and other graphics to visually represent operational status.
● Enables flexible report formatting and content adjustment through pivot charts.
● Works with portal functions to provide tailored analytical content for different management units, promoting business-finance integration and strategic implementation alongside the comprehensive budget system.
The comprehensive budget solution and Intcube EPM system align with CPPE’s needs for real-time budget management, dynamic analysis, and compliance control. During implementation, Intcube fully considered challenges such as large data volumes and sensitive data exposure, maintaining proactive communication and cooperation. Through joint efforts, the project delivered a highly integrated, secure, and efficient comprehensive budget management platform. Driven by original multidimensional database technology and aimed at business-finance integration, it serves as a "smart brain" for corporate management, fulfilling CPPE’s requirements for standardized, dynamic, and intelligent budget transformation.
