Management Cockpit

Clearly grasp the “now” of all overseas
businesses and subsidiaries

The Management Cockpit feature provides useful real-time
information of all domestic and overseas subsidiaries
for performance management improvement, internal control
strengthening, and management decision making.

All-in-one Management Cockpit provided by multibook

Management Cockpit covers all information required for business management, from performance visualization and analysis (year-on-year, budget, by-customer breakdown, management index) to funding, balance confirmation between consolidated affiliated companies, fraud detection, and exchange rate risk exposure.

All-in-one solution for business management information
  • 1

    Performance

    Display a 12-month transition table of all global subsidiaries’ income statements and monthly closing situations in real time. Utilize graphs to visualize the transition of sales and profit.

  • 2

    Analysis

    Navigate analysis with year-on-year, budget comparison, by-customer breakdown, and profitability and efficiency indices, in addition to real-time understanding of performance.

  • 3

    Funding

    Display the fund balances of all global subsidiaries in real time. Utilize graphs to visualize the transition of fund balances.

  • 4

    Balance Confirmation

    See the consistency status of payable and receivable balances between affiliated companies in real time. Secure consistency of payable and receivable balances between affiliated companies during the month and accelerate consolidated accounting.

  • 5

    Fraud Detection

    Prevent problems in advance with the alert feature (payments over a certain amount, multiple payments to the same customer, purchase orders exceeding current inventory value), complete visualization in Japanese, and a robust internal control feature.

  • 6

    Exchange Rate

    Display the foreign exchange position of all global subsidiaries in real time. Prevent decreases in profit due to exchange rates.

Dashboard management made possible by
Management Cockpit

Management Cockpit automates collection of information and aggregate analysis. Headquarters business management will be able to focus on further analysis, improvement, and progress.

Automate with Management Cockpit

Headquarters business management can focus on analysis and improvement

  • Find

    Collection of Information

    Visualize performance, fund status transition, balances between affiliated companies, foreign currency balance, and delays in document processing.

  • Analyze

    Aggregate Analysis

    Navigate analysis with budget ratio, year-on-year, by-customer breakdown, and profitability and efficiency analysis. Utilize the alert feature for notable matters and detect suspicious transactions.

  • Improve

    Improvement and Progress

    Based on information collected and analyzed with Management Cockpit, headquarters business management will be able to focus on improvement and further progress of business.

Example of use and screen samples of
Management Cockpit

Analysis

Navigate analysis with year-on-year, budget comparison, by-customer breakdown, and profitability and efficiency indices, in addition to real-time understanding of performance.

As-Is

Hands are full with reporting results
and cannot focus on analysis …

Repeated confirmation through phone and email … , Hands full with reporting results …

To-Be

See necessary information
in real time and focus on analysis

Analysis information is ready as soon as it is entered! Focus on analysis
Visualize year-on-year and budget comparison with graphs. Months falling below previous year or budget are indicated in red. By-customer breakdown

Balance Confirmation

See the consistency status of payable and receivable balances between affiliated companies in real time. Secure consistency of payable and receivable balances between affiliated companies during the month and accelerate consolidated accounting.

As-Is

Inconsistent transaction balances between affiliated companies hinder acceleration of consolidated accounting

“Inconsistencies Found “After Consolidated Accounting”, Redo Subsidiary Closing, Repeating the same thing every time …

To-Be

Resolve inconsistencies beforehand to accelerate consolidated accounting

Inconsistencies Resolved “Before Consolidated Accounting”, No Backtracking — Shortened Schedule, Consistent in real time during the month!
Display payable and receivable balances from company A-to-company B perspective. Display payable and receivable balances from company B-to-company A perspective

An all-in-one solution for business management information
of all global subsidiaries. Please have a look at the service information materials to learn more.

How is multibook Management Cockpit different from other products?

Management Cockpit is an all-in-one service covering all information necessary for business management, continuously evolving to provide broader and deeper support.

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Service Characteristics
Specialized for performance, analysis, funding, balance confirmation, fraud detection, and exchange rate
Specialized for performance and budget Specialized for fraud detection Specialized for exchange rate risk
Performance
Budget/Year-on-Year Comparison
Management Indices (Profitability and Efficiency)
Status of Funds
Balance Confirmation Between Consolidated Affiliated Companies
Fraud Detection
Monthly Closing Situations
Unprocessed Documents
Exchange Rate Risk Exposure
By-customer Drill Down Analysis
Journal Line Drill Down Analysis
Performance
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Budget/Year-on-Year Comparison
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Management Indices (Profitability and Efficiency)
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Status of Funds
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Balance Confirmation Between Consolidated Affiliated Companies
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Fraud Detection
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Monthly Closing Situations
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Unprocessed Documents
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Exchange Rate Risk Exposure
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By-customer Drill Down Analysis
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Journal Line Drill Down Analysis
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Further evolutions explained by
the designers of Management Cockpit

The masterminds behind Management Cockpit: business management professional Watabe, who has experience controlling overseas subsidiaries and as the CFO of a foreign-owned company; and Nagano, who leads the design team of global ERP experts.

Misako Nagano

  • Graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University.
  • Engaged in production control system development at an ERP maker for leading domestic companies.
  • Joined multibook in 2021 and engages in product planning and design. In charge of planning and design of Management Cockpit, accounting, fixed assets, and all fields of logistics.

Management Cockpit analyzes hidden correlations from an enormous amount of accounting and logistics data, minimizes necessary analysis data for management personnel, and navigates swift linkage to issue-solving actions.

Step 1Automated detection and alert of outliers

Step 2Navigation of cause analysis by MC

Step 3Navigation of “realization” by insight

Manabu Watabe

  • Engaged in multiple subsidiary management as financial officer of the Asia-Pacific region at a Japanese specialized trading company.
  • Successively held positions as CFO and led management of foreign-owned companies based in Europe, the United States, and China.
  • Has extensive experience in cross-border M&A organization mergers and performance turnarounds.
  • Especially competent in core system integration of acquired businesses and financial strategy by cross-border capital restructuring.

Overseas subsidiary management covers an extremely wide range of measures, including performance management based on performance budget, acceleration support of consolidated accounting, initiatives to reduce exchange rate risks, and in recent years, dealing with internal control and compliance by preventing fraudulent transactions. With the shortage of overseas human resources, tackling everything manually in not realistic. Management Cockpit by multibook brings DX to overseas business management to continue contributing to profitability and productivity improvement of overseas businesses.

An all-in-one solution for business management information
of all global subsidiaries. Please have a look at the service information materials to learn more.