Askul Corporation

What the client says	“In order to achieve structural business reform in budget creation and actual performance management, we introduced Sactona as a way to cultivate a shared mindset among all employees by eliminating the differences in awareness of the company's business situation that had arisen due to our functional organization. The introduction of Sactona has improved accuracy and shortened the time required for budget creation, by streamlining the budget creation process and reducing waste through visualization. The extra time we have gained by being freed from work that had become personalized is being used for high-value-added tasks e.g. planning and analysis. The daily reports that are automatically distributed to all employees every morning have been highly evaluated within the company, with comments such as “I can understand the business situation of the company no matter where I am” and “my awareness has changed”. In the future, we plan to migrate other operations and related operations that are not currently supported to Sactona."
Background at the time of introduction	■At our company, almost all work is carried out in Excel when creating budgets and managing actual results. There were issues with the number of man-hours required, progress management and accuracy. We decided to systemize in order to achieve structural business reform, such as reducing the complex and cumbersome processes and workloads using Excel and breaking away from the current situation where everything is dependent on a single person. ■As the organization expanded, we felt that there was a risk that we would not be able to instantly grasp the performance management situation, as the work was becoming more and more fragmented by function-based organization. We were looking for a way to raise the awareness of all employees, so that the management executives of all departments would take action with KPI in mind.
Decisive factors for selecting Sactona	・Because almost all the Excel forms we were using could be reused on Sactona and there was no need to install any special software on Sactona users' PCs, we could expect a smooth implementation without any special user training (great usability). ・Daily business performance report can be automatically emailed to all employees
Implementation Outcomes	・We have improved accuracy and shortened the time required by streamlining budget planning work and reducing waste through visualization. The time saved through systemization is being shifted to high-value-added work e.g. planning, analysis, decision-making and strategy execution. ・We are currently automatically distributing daily reports to all employees in more than 30 different patterns. This has led to a change in employee awareness.
Future developments	The budget preparation and actual results management work was complicated and we were overwhelmed with the task of compiling the data and creating the documents. But after introducing Sactona, we were able to respond to the requests of the frontline in more detail because we had more time to spare due to the reduction in working hours. In the future, we plan to expand the scope of EPM with Sactona.
Business overview	Mail-order sales of office supplies.
Link	https://www.askul.co.jp/corp/english/

What the client says

“In order to achieve structural business reform in budget creation and actual performance management, we introduced Sactona as a way to cultivate a shared mindset among all employees by eliminating the differences in awareness of the company's business situation that had arisen due to our functional organization.
The introduction of Sactona has improved accuracy and shortened the time required for budget creation, by streamlining the budget creation process and reducing waste through visualization. The extra time we have gained by being freed from work that had become personalized is being used for high-value-added tasks e.g. planning and analysis.
The daily reports that are automatically distributed to all employees every morning have been highly evaluated within the company, with comments such as “I can understand the business situation of the company no matter where I am” and “my awareness has changed”. In the future, we plan to migrate other operations and related operations that are not currently supported to Sactona."

Background at the time of introduction

■At our company, almost all work is carried out in Excel when creating budgets and managing actual results. There were issues with the number of man-hours required, progress management and accuracy. We decided to systemize in order to achieve structural business reform, such as reducing the complex and cumbersome processes and workloads using Excel and breaking away from the current situation where everything is dependent on a single person.

■As the organization expanded, we felt that there was a risk that we would not be able to instantly grasp the performance management situation, as the work was becoming more and more fragmented by function-based organization. We were looking for a way to raise the awareness of all employees, so that the management executives of all departments would take action with KPI in mind.

Decisive factors for selecting Sactona

・Because almost all the Excel forms we were using could be reused on Sactona and there was no need to install any special software on Sactona users' PCs, we could expect a smooth implementation without any special user training (great usability).
・Daily business performance report can be automatically emailed to all employees

Implementation Outcomes

・We have improved accuracy and shortened the time required by streamlining budget planning work and reducing waste through visualization. The time saved through systemization is being shifted to high-value-added work e.g. planning, analysis, decision-making and strategy execution.
・We are currently automatically distributing daily reports to all employees in more than 30 different patterns. This has led to a change in employee awareness.

Future developments

The budget preparation and actual results management work was complicated and we were overwhelmed with the task of compiling the data and creating the documents. But after introducing Sactona, we were able to respond to the requests of the frontline in more detail because we had more time to spare due to the reduction in working hours. In the future, we plan to expand the scope of EPM with Sactona.

Business overview

Mail-order sales of office supplies.

Link

https://www.askul.co.jp/corp/english/

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