Simon G. / Fields / Food & FMCG
Margin, cash and stock across plants, brands and companies.
For food and consumer-goods groups with several companies, plants and brands: the management result by product and customer, a budget you can simulate before you freeze it, consolidation without the month-end scramble, and credit and working capital under control. On your own server.
The demo shows a fictional five-company food group: dairy, bakery, frozen, beverages and private label, in two currencies.
The group this morning
What the CFO sees first. Result, cash, stock, the close.
Figures from the demo company, fictional. Every tile opens the decisions behind it.
Management result
By product, customer, company and cost centre, closed every month.
Cost by nature, standard cost from your recipes, packaging and transport where they belong. One result that ties to the books, seen the way management asks for it, with the variances explained.
- Result by product line, customer and channel
- Variances explained: price, volume, mix, cost
- Ties to the trial balance, every month
Budget with simulation
A budget at product level, simulated before it is frozen under four eyes.
Drivers written down: volumes, prices, input costs, terms. Change one and see the result and the cash move. The freeze needs two signatures, and every change after it is a new version, not an overwrite.
- Scenarios on prices, volumes and terms
- Freeze under four eyes, versions kept
- Monthly follow-up against the frozen budget
Consolidation
Five companies, one set of statements, with the notes as schedules.
Entities, intercompany, eliminations, currency translation. Statements and notes exported in one step, ready for the board, the auditor and the bank. Covenants tested monthly, not once a year.
- Intercompany matched and eliminated
- Statements and notes as schedules
- Export to spreadsheet and PDF in one step
Credit and working capital
Who pays late, who is over the limit, and the cash tied up.
A credit limit and a risk class per customer from their own payment record. Overdue control weekly, with the action for the week. Working capital days by company, with the cash each day is worth.
- Credit limits proposed, signed by the credit controller
- Overdue list with the action for the week
- Working capital days and the cash they tie up
What we read, so you prepare nothing
Files you already have. We take them ourselves.
- The booksTrial balance per company from your accounting system, and bank statements.
- SalesInvoices by product, customer and channel; price lists and discounts.
- Stock and movementsPer plant and depot, with receipts and transfers.
- Recipes and costsBills of material, packaging, the energy and labour rates you use today.
No implementation project on your side. We read these with your IT beside us, set Simon G. up for your activity, and it runs on your server with no internet connection. Your data is shared with no one, not even through a chatbot.
What it does not do
Plainly.
- It does not post entries.It reads the books and consolidates; the accountant stays the accountant.
- It does not plan promotions.It reads their effect on stock and margin and says so.
- It does not forecast a product it has never seen.A new product gets its own method when it has history; until then it is shown as such.
- It does not post to the ERP.Nothing is written back.
See the demo group
Thirty days of access to the demo group, then a conversation on yours.
A fictional five-company food group, every screen live: the result, the budget, the consolidation, the credit list. Ask for access and we send an account within one working day, with a ten-task script that takes forty minutes.
Fees are said in the first conversation. How the pilot works.