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Retail sales exceed forecasts, underscoring solid 2024 economic growth

CFO Dive

Recent signs of vitality have prompted some economists to mark up growth forecasts, despite weakness in manufacturing and a hiring slowdown early in the summer.

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Nail Your 2025 Forecast: 5 Ways to Align Sales and Budgeting

Focus CFO

Heading into 2025, accurate sales forecasting is more critical than ever. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result.

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Modern FP&A: The Key to Simplifying the Complexities of Manufacturing Budgets 

Centage

For manufacturing and distribution organizations, this can be especially challenging. Manufacturing facilities must consider their production line capacities, their customers’ end product projections, and fluctuating material costs as they design their revenue goals and inventory requirements. That’s a lot of moving parts.

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Why Data is So Important to Manufacturing Budgets

Centage

Technology has been a boon for manufacturing in a million different ways – from online ordering, to faster invoicing, to optimizing sales teams. While all of this data helps manufacturing companies to be more efficient, when it comes it comes to creating a manufacturing budget , data is also just as critical.

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Manufacturing and urban demand may fire up FY25 GDP

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Economists are optimistic about India's economy, forecasting a 7% growth in FY25 driven by improved manufacturing, farm activity, and robust urban demand. Some expect growth to reach 7.8%, emphasizing the need for meaningful job creation.

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CFO for Manufacturing Companies

Michigan CFO

In the world of manufacturing, where processes run thick and bottlenecks are known to arise, CFO services play a critical role in helping organizations steer towards efficiency, profitability, and longevity. The Evolving CFO Role in a Manufacturing Company. Digitalization is changing the way manufacturing is performed worldwide.