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6,300+ stores, One connected vision
EVOX enabled Lawson to bridge finance and operations, fueling insight-driven growth at scale |
LAWSON China, the company’s largest operation outside Japan, manages 6,330 stores and is projected to surpass 6,800 by 2026. To support this rapid expansion and meet ambitious double-digit revenue growth targets, LAWSON China recognized the critical need to modernize and optimize its internal management processes through digital innovation.
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Lawson China’s Comprehensive budgeting transformation was guided by a strategically crafted three-phase roadmap, each phase marked by focused objectives and measurable milestones. The initiative encompassed end-to-end financial management, from budget planning and advanced analytics to system integration and consolidation reports.
Key innovations powered by EVOX:
• Unified Budgeting Framework: Centralized group-wide budgeting framework, leveraging hybrid data integration (manual entry + automated data interfaces) to ensure budgeting accuracy and drive operational efficiency across the organization.
• Scenario Planning: Multi-dimensional modeling integrating headquarters directives and store-level realities, including store expansion targets, CAPEX depreciation schedules, and new outlet performance benchmarks scenarios, ensuring agility in planning and decision-making.
The EVOX implementation team designed a customized system architecture tailored to LAWSON’s operational and strategic needs, delivering robust capabilities across three core pillars:
• Version Control & Audit Trails: Built-in governance tools ensure full traceability and compliance through rigorous version management and detailed audit trails, reinforcing financial integrity and accountability.
• Adaptive Budgeting Framework: A dynamic hybrid model that combines top-down strategic guidance with bottom-up flexibility, empowering business units to operate autonomously while staying aligned with group objectives.
Leveraging EVOX’s EPM platform, delivered transformative outcomes:
• Unified Budget-to-Actual Monitoring: Real-time synchronization across 300+ operational metrics, empowering agile, data-driven performance tracking at every level.
• AI-Powered Forecasting Engine: Advanced scenario modeling enables rapid sensitivity analysis and proactive contingency planning, driving smarter, faster decision-making.
• Customizable Logic Modules: 40+ configurable business rules tailored to real-world operational demands, from workforce planning to supply chain optimization, ensuring scalability and precision.
EVOX-powered comprehensive budgeting platform enabled LAWSON China to achieve quantifiable breakthroughs:
• 95% Process Automation: Reducing budget cycle time by 60% while eliminating manual errors, enhancing operational efficiency
• 360° Financial Visibility: Cross-departmental data integration enabling real-time P&L insights at regional/store levels, empowering timely, informed decision-making
• Strategic Agility: Dynamic planning capabilities enabled LAWSON China to reallocate resources 3x faster, driving swift responses to shifting market dynamics.
This digital backbone has catalyzed Lawson’s transition to an insight-driven organization, breaking down silos between finance and operations while fostering innovation across 6,300+ retail touchpoints.
EVOX: Powering Lawson’s Next-Generation Financial ArchitectureAs the budgeting system’s core platform, EVOX Enterprise Performance Management Suite delivers:
• Market-Leading Throughput: Capable of processing over 10 million transaction records per hour to support high-volume retail operations
• Zero-Code Flexibility: Business-user-friendly for rapid model iteration without IT dependency
• AI-Powered intelligence: Built-in predictive analytics and automated variance analysis accelerate insights and proactively guide KPI-driven planning Why Industry Leaders Choose EVOX
EVOX empowers organizations to lead with confidence, scale with speed, and innovate with resilience:
• Proven at Scale: Over 500 successful deployments across 20+ industries, e.g., retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, banking & finance, auto, service sectors, etc.
• Future-Proof Architecture: Cloud-agnostic deployment supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, aligns with organizations’ evolving IT strategies
• Investor-Validated Excellence: Backed by IDG Capital, Sequoia China, and other leading global investors with over $60M in total funding, underscoring our long-term commitment to innovation and customer success
EVOX (owned by Espero Technology Pte. Ltd.) is the AI-powered Enterprise Performance Management platform, designed to seamlessly connect Data, Business Scenarios, and People to evolve organizations toward excellence. EVOX platform is featuring EVOX Budgeting & Planning, EVOX Consolidation, and EVOX SPM, empowers enterprises to:
• Reduce monthly close cycles by over 40%
• Elevate forecasting accuracy by over 95% confidence levels
• Achieve 100% audit-compliant financial consolidation
Headquartered in Singapore with worldwide business coverage, EVOX continues to redefine EPM for organizations.