Client Profile

One of the biggest fashion groups with over 6,000 stores worldwide, the client designs and manufactures almost all its products in-house. The group entered the China market in 2005 and operates more than 500 stores in the country today.

Challenges

  • The client has to process voluminous invoices and payments for shops in different locations and its e-commerce shop.
  • The client needs to reconcile receipts issued to its customers with payment collections.
  • As a retail business, the client faced crucial but complicated cost accounting and variance analysis processes.

Our Engagement

  • Propose solutions based on an understanding of the company’s operations
  • Recruit members for the client’s accounting team
  • Team performance management and review
  • Propose solutions to support ongoing process improvement efforts
  • Provide replacements for accounting team members who left
  • On-site support for treasury team
  • On-site support for revenue recording and collection team: manual refund
  • On-site support for procurement and payment processing team
  • Reimbursement of staff travel and entertainment expenses
  • Vendor payment
  • Payment process review
  • On-site support for stock management
  • Advisory for workflow standardisation and optimisation

Results

With SBA Stone Forest’s team of 4 professionals providing on-site support and processing about 3,000 documents a month, the client has greatly improved its productivity. By leaving important routine processes to SBA Stone Forest, the client has also been able to focus more on its core business.



 

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