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Retail Industry EPM Solutions

In recent years, the retail industry has faced significant challenges amid economic volatility, with overall growth noticeably slowing. However, as a segment within retail, convenience stores have continued to show year-on-year sales growth exceeding the total retail sales of consumer goods, demonstrating strong market adaptability and resilience. To respond to external changes, the industry is placing greater emphasis on digital technology in strategic development and operational management. Most companies are adopting comprehensive budgeting solutions to upgrade their budget management systems across all scenarios and processes, enabling integrated closed-loop management that bridges operations with finance. This approach continuously enhances operational capabilities and business efficiency.

Industry Pain Points
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Ever-Changing Economic Environment
In recent years, the global economic landscape has been highly volatile, creating a storm-like impact on the retail industry and significantly slowing its overall growth. Although many retailers have maintained year-on-year sales growth that outpaces total consumer goods retail sales, this superficial performance masks underlying pressures: rising costs, intensifying competition, and increasing operational difficulties. These challenges have placed budget management under greater strai
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Inadequate Application of Digital Technologies
In today’s competitive market, retail companies show noticeable deficiencies in the adoption of digital technologies—particularly in budget management. The continued reliance on traditional methods for budgeting, execution, and monitoring, coupled with a lack of advanced digital tools, results in low efficiency. This inhibits the ability to respond swiftly to market changes, undermines strategic implementation, and hinders improvements in operational performance.
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Difficulties in Online-Offline Integration
As new retail models gain traction, the integration of online and offline channels has become an inevitable trend. However, fragmented data between channels and insufficient budget management systems pose major obstacles. These limitations prevent retailers from achieving optimal resource allocation and maximizing operational efficiency in their integration efforts.
Services & Solutions
  • Building an Omni-Directional and Dynamic Comprehensive Budget Management System

  • Strengthening Budget Control and Unifying Management Standards

  • Optimizing Resource Allocation with an Integrated Data-Sharing Platform

  • Increasing Budgeting Responsiveness and Enabling Agile Management

Building an Omni-Directional and Dynamic Comprehensive Budget Management System
In response to the multiple challenges facing budget management in the retail industry, the key solution lies in constructing a holistic and dynamic comprehensive budgeting system. This system must not only transform strategic plans into concrete and executable business actions, but also establish end-to-end integration from strategy to annual budgeting to ensure precise implementation. Furthermore, it incorporates a dynamic budgeting mechanism that enables flexible adjustments based on internal and external drivers—such as market trends and competitor movements—thereby enhancing responsiveness and adaptability. Through this system, retail enterprises can more effectively adapt to market fluctuations, improve operational efficiency, and advance strategic objectives.
Strengthening Budget Control and Unifying Management Standards
To enhance the efficiency and standardization of budget management in retail, it is critical to strengthen control mechanisms and implement unified budgeting standards. By achieving integrated internal management and reinforcing vertical oversight, companies can ensure that budgeting and execution are effectively supervised and guided. Establishing clear and consistent standards for budgeting, performance evaluation, and accounting ensures data authenticity, accuracy, and comparability, offering reliable support for decision-making across management levels. This effort significantly improves the standardization and scientific rigor of budget management, while reducing ambiguities in the budgeting process.
Optimizing Resource Allocation with an Integrated Data-Sharing Platform
Optimizing resource allocation is a central goal of budget management in retail. To this end, Intcube has developed a budget management system rooted in business planning, embodying the integration of operations and finance to improve the rationality and effectiveness of resource allocation focused on value creation. By building a unified budget management platform that integrates and shares data in real time, the system seamlessly connects operational and financial information. It supports powerful data analysis and multi-level drill-down capabilities—from group-level consolidation to subsidiary operations—covering a wide range of analytical domains such as budget versus actual comparisons, proportional analysis, predictive modeling, and volume-price variance analysis.
Increasing Budgeting Responsiveness and Enabling Agile Management
To improve the speed and agility of budget management in retail, Intcube employs advanced information technologies through an intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows flexible permission settings and multi-tier authorization. This ensures data security while minimizing distractions from non-relevant information, thereby boosting preparation efficiency. The system incorporates budgeting, adjustment, and approval workflows that are closely tied to real-time business changes. Supported by robust business rules and BI models, it automates data calculations and report generation, greatly enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of budgeting. Additionally, the system supports multi-version storage and full audit trail capability, enabling easy tracking and adjustment of budget plans.
  • Building an Omni-Directional and Dynamic Comprehensive Budget Management System

    In response to the multiple challenges facing budget management in the retail industry, the key solution lies in constructing a holistic and dynamic comprehensive budgeting system. This system must not only transform strategic plans into concrete and executable business actions, but also establish end-to-end integration from strategy to annual budgeting to ensure precise implementation. Furthermore, it incorporates a dynamic budgeting mechanism that enables flexible adjustments based on internal and external drivers—such as market trends and competitor movements—thereby enhancing responsiveness and adaptability. Through this system, retail enterprises can more effectively adapt to market fluctuations, improve operational efficiency, and advance strategic objectives.
  • Strengthening Budget Control and Unifying Management Standards

    To enhance the efficiency and standardization of budget management in retail, it is critical to strengthen control mechanisms and implement unified budgeting standards. By achieving integrated internal management and reinforcing vertical oversight, companies can ensure that budgeting and execution are effectively supervised and guided. Establishing clear and consistent standards for budgeting, performance evaluation, and accounting ensures data authenticity, accuracy, and comparability, offering reliable support for decision-making across management levels. This effort significantly improves the standardization and scientific rigor of budget management, while reducing ambiguities in the budgeting process.
  • Optimizing Resource Allocation with an Integrated Data-Sharing Platform

    Optimizing resource allocation is a central goal of budget management in retail. To this end, Intcube has developed a budget management system rooted in business planning, embodying the integration of operations and finance to improve the rationality and effectiveness of resource allocation focused on value creation. By building a unified budget management platform that integrates and shares data in real time, the system seamlessly connects operational and financial information. It supports powerful data analysis and multi-level drill-down capabilities—from group-level consolidation to subsidiary operations—covering a wide range of analytical domains such as budget versus actual comparisons, proportional analysis, predictive modeling, and volume-price variance analysis.
  • Increasing Budgeting Responsiveness and Enabling Agile Management

    To improve the speed and agility of budget management in retail, Intcube employs advanced information technologies through an intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows flexible permission settings and multi-tier authorization. This ensures data security while minimizing distractions from non-relevant information, thereby boosting preparation efficiency. The system incorporates budgeting, adjustment, and approval workflows that are closely tied to real-time business changes. Supported by robust business rules and BI models, it automates data calculations and report generation, greatly enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of budgeting. Additionally, the system supports multi-version storage and full audit trail capability, enabling easy tracking and adjustment of budget plans.
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