ECE
The Challenge
The real estate company ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (ECE) specializes in the development, realization, leasing and operation of shopping centers. ECE's capital-intensive involvement in the real estate market requires monthly cash flow planning. ECE planning objects - currently 199 shopping centers and around 50 real estate projects under development - have been recorded with the CCH Tagetik software solution since August 2016. The project to introduce a new planning tool at ECE officially started in December 2014, but the preparations actually started two years earlier.
The trigger for the search for a new planning tool was the increasing dissatisfaction of the planning participants, as the growing demands on a planning process in Excel could hardly be met. In the central financial area, the effort for the correct processing of data, such as the processing of data from the data warehouse in the Excel spreadsheets, was also increasing more and more. It was also difficult to keep track of which planning steps the individual group companies had already taken. Leading to frustration and overtime.
CCH Tagetik Solution
From income from parking lot terminals to the entire cash view: the real estate company ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (ECE) uses CCH Tagetik to carry out fully integrated cash flow planning on a monthly basis. The planning data is entered by about 300 users from around 60 Group companies in special Excel-based input forms. The planning process is controlled by sophisticated workflows. As a result, the central finance and controlling departments have more opportunities to carry out complex analyses. The main objective is to provide management with a better basis for decision-making on corporate management.
Benefits
Credible financial planning and analyses |
CCH Tagetik provides credible financial planning and analyses as a basis for management decisions |
Excel integration |
High user acceptance thanks to Excel integration |
Integration of preliminary planning |
Great efficiency through integration of preliminary planning from the specialist department |
Integrated additional control processes |
Thanks to a smart, expandable modular architecture, additional control processes can be continuously integrated |
Carry out complex analyses |
The central finance and controlling departments have now more opportunities to carry out complex analyses |
Optimization of planning processes |
The planning process is controlled by sophisticated workflows and the company carry out fully integrated cash flow planning on a monthly basis |