Every saving idea gets an owner, a value and a lifecycle.
Ideas for taking cost out of the business arrive in spreadsheets, mail threads and workshop notes, and quietly disappear. This turns each one into a tracked initiative with somebody responsible for it, a number attached to it and a stage it has actually reached, then rolls the whole portfolio up so finance can see potential against what has really landed.
In production use todayThe problem it removes
The savings programme is real. The savings number is not.
Every business unit has a list. The lists are in different formats, the values are counted differently, half the entries were realised last year and nobody removed them, and the total that reaches the board is a number nobody quite believes. This gives the programme one shape.
Stages that match how finance actually thinks
Assessment, feasibility, approved, in realisation, realised. Familiar language, and the same five steps for every business unit, so two divisions can finally be compared without a translation exercise.
The stage follows the facts, not the optimism
An initiative moves stage because the information that defines the stage has changed, not because somebody dragged a card. That is why the pipeline figure in the cockpit can be trusted as the current position.
Two numbers per idea, not one
Each initiative carries both an earnings impact and a working-capital impact. A project that improves cash but not margin stops being invisible, and the portfolio view shows both effects side by side.
Built for triaging forty at a time
The list stays on the left and the full detail opens on the right, with no page reloads between them. Fast enough to work a whole division’s backlog in one sitting.
Master data in one place
Divisions, business units, categories, currencies and exchange rates are maintained centrally. Change a rate once and every figure that depends on it follows, instead of thirty spreadsheets going quietly out of date.
Candidates found for you
An automated check sweeps expense data on a schedule and puts what it finds into assessment with the evidence attached. The programme gets a supply of candidates instead of waiting for the next workshop.
What it does
Cockpit, pipeline, master data and evidence.
Cockpit
The view the finance lead asks for
Pipeline against realised, earnings potential per unit, working-capital effect, and a queue of the quick wins. Every figure drills through to the initiatives that produced it.
- Pipeline against realised, at a glance
- Rolled up per division and per business unit
- Quick wins separated from the long haul
Initiatives
One record per idea, from first note to booked result
Owner, value, category, expected date, current stage and the history of how it got there. Everything about an initiative in one place instead of across a mail thread.
- A named owner on every initiative
- Full field-level history
- Rework loops back to an earlier stage cleanly
Master data
Divisions, categories, currencies and rates
Maintained once, applied everywhere. Local teams enter in their own currency and the group view converts consistently.
- Divisions and business units
- Categories and tags
- Currencies and exchange rates
Automated review
Expense data checked for candidates
A scheduled check reads expense records, looks for the patterns that usually mean money is being left on the table, and files what it finds with the evidence behind it.
- Runs on a schedule, unattended
- Every suggestion links back to its evidence
- Every action written to the audit trail
How it runs
It installs in your own data centre, on your private cluster, or hosted by us, and signs people in against the directory you already use. Because it runs on the same automation platform as everything else in the range, the scheduled checks and the audit record come from the platform rather than being bolted on.
Works with the rest of the range
The cockpit figures can be published as shared measures so the savings number in a board pack is the same one the programme team works with, and the automated review runs on the same platform, under the same permissions and with the same run record, as every other automation you own.
How to start
Bring one division’s list.
Load the initiatives one business unit is already tracking, and see the same portfolio with a stage, an owner and a defensible total. The rest of the group follows once that view is trusted.