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Due to accelerating automation, China's manufacturing sector is facing rapidly changing skill demands. The industry is undergoing significant transformation, with an increasing number of enterprises seeking to adopt advanced technologies to maintain steady progress in a fast-evolving business environment. The client in this project is a manufacturing enterprise specializing in R&D, production, sales, and service. Centered on "strategic objective management," the project aims to help the client build a unified budget management information platform tailored to Chinese user preferences, serving as an effective tool for budget preparation, reporting, issuance, analysis, and adjustment. By phasing strategic goals through strategic planning and decomposing budget targets, the system guides various centers and departments in supporting the enterprise’s overall strategic objectives.
▌ Using Versioning to Manage End-to-End Budget Data
During the design phase, the comprehensive budget management system was developed based on management needs, refining budget indicators and operational analysis metrics layer by layer. By integrating data from various enterprise information systems, it provides technical support for managerial decision-making.
Budget Submission and Revision
The system supports full-scope budget form data, allowing business departments to submit forms via workflow. Version data can be locked to control submission deadlines. Budget submission versions can be copied, and non-financial departments are restricted from making revisions. Multiple business scenarios can be simulated for budget data adjustments.
Budget Issuance and Reporting
Budget issuance instructions are generated by copying revised and adjusted budget versions that meet management requirements. Business departments can view target issuance forms. Using a bottom-up approach, adjusted and refined budget data is reported to management accurately and reliably, supporting subsequent analysis and execution.
Budget Adjustment and Execution
All departments have permissions to make global or local adjustments at the budget indicator level. Non-financial departments cannot execute operations on finalized budget data obtained through copying or calculations, ensuring data accuracy and credibility.
▌ Multi-Dimensional Management Perspective Meets Operational, Analytical, and Decision-Making Needs
By adopting a scientific budgeting methodology from business to finance and leveraging Intcube’s advanced multidimensional database technology, a comprehensive budget management system was established that enables full participation, end-to-end control, and full business coverage. This allows budget managers to shift from tedious data processing to financial management, meeting the needs of operations, analysis, and decision-making while further enhancing financial analysis capabilities.
Rapid Response to Business Changes
The new comprehensive budget management system features a unified multi-terminal interface that is user-friendly and tailored to Chinese user habits. Flexible permission settings and hierarchical authorization ensure data security and prevent erroneous data from affecting preparation efficiency. Dynamic budgeting, adjustment, and approval processes are connected to business operations, adapting to enterprise changes. Powerful operational rules and business intelligence models support automatic data calculations, with member formulas and business rules that are easy to edit and learn, enabling future business expansion. Automated data processing reduces human error, and multidimensional database storage ensures timely and accurate budget preparation and analysis. The system also integrates with third-party software for multi-platform data sharing. Budget forms support Excel import and export, improving compilation efficiency.
Shared Data Strengthens Business-Finance Integration
The project ensures information symmetry across departments with reliable and accurate data, shortening negotiation time and improving work efficiency. It integrates various enterprise information resources, enabling budget updates based on external changes and providing technical support for pre-event planning, in-process control, and post-event analysis, eliminating data silos. With extensive operational data support and a shared budget management platform, data from various systems is integrated, achieving business-finance integration.
Digitalization Enhances Financial Management
The project ensures the implementation of corporate strategic and operational goals through budget management, helping the client define specific and feasible strategic objectives while establishing behavioral standards adhered to by all departments. This facilitates the transformation of financial personnel and improves financial analysis capabilities. Intcube enables automated and real-time budget management, shortening budget consolidation time, improving budget preparation efficiency, and reducing document processing cycles. This saves operational resources and enhances resource utilization. The "multi-dimensional" management model provides financial staff with comprehensive analytical perspectives, making it an effective tool for strategic execution.
▌ Budget Execution and Analysis Centered on "Strategic Objective Management"
After project completion, the client’s comprehensive budget management system significantly improved internal collaborative management, enabled mastery of business indicators, and achieved an upgrade in strategic objective management. Data indicators are vertically decomposed from expense account plans at the lowest level upward to positions, departments, and the company, ensuring constrained and linked relationships between departments and accounts. Horizontally, based on time dimensions, expense task plans are presented monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and annually across administrative and business organization levels.
As a typical manufacturing enterprise, the client continues to deepen business-finance integration with "strategic objective management" at the core. By building intelligent multi-scenario models, it rapidly responds to business changes, enhances financial management, and reduces costs while increasing efficiency. Facing new opportunities, environments, and challenges, Intcube provides tailored management solutions from three aspects—data integration, data sharing, and data flow—meeting the client’s one-stop digital intelligent management needs and empowering the enterprise on its path toward automated, intelligent, and modern comprehensive budget management.
