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Bossini
Bossini, a leading Hong Kong-based retailer, is rolling out a new financial management solution to drive its long-term growth.

Executives in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore were all using different brands of accounting software, all outdated. Financial data also was being entered manually in Excel format, with inaccurate information delaying key decisions.

This status quo was no longer working for Bossini, a leading Hong Kong-based apparel retailer, brand owner and franchiser, and so the firm embarked on an ambitious enterprise-wide plan to fix it.

Bossini's background
Bossini launched its first retail store in 1987, and during the past 20 years, has grown from a local retailer into a major player in apparel retail, with more than 1,000 outlets in about 20 countries.

The firm's, premiere brand is its "bossini" label of casual wear, known for its colorful mix-and-match styles for men, women and children. In the coming year, Bossini plans to embark on a brand-building program with revamped logos, and to open 100 retail outlets, most in mainland China.

Prior to its systems investment, the firm's capital budgeting and allocation, asset management, financial forecasting, budgeting and investment assessments were all handled separately by its operations in each country where it did business.

Bossini was in dire need of an integrated solution to bring financial transparency to its entire enterprise, says Andrew Ling, the retailer's director of information technology.

"Manual data feed and consolidation requires tremendous labor," says Ling. "The lack of financial transparency encumbered sound and quick management decision-making processes."

Aside from its four core base markets in Asia, Bossini also has extensive international distribution networks in the Middle East and Latin America. Given plans for rapid expansion into international markets, the company wanted to consolidate its financial systems and processes onto a single,

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