"Russian Agricultural Group" introduced "1C: Holding Management"

2023: Implementation of "1C: Holding Management "

"Russian Agricultural Group" introduced "1C: Holding Management." This was announced on November 15, 2023 by Bobday software (bobday).

Before the start of the project:

• Budgeting in Excel:
  • Forms are not unified, which complicates the process of the code of information;
  • Actual data are collected manually, according to printed SALTs;
  • The reporting is consolidated manually;
  • Low involvement of Central Federal District users in the budgeting process.

• Managerial and Fin. Reporting:
  • Slow preparation of financial statements;
  • Lack of necessary detail in the company reports;
  • Lack of operational information on the activities of the enterprise.

• Loan and leasing portfolio:
  • Time-consuming work with complex files;
  • A lot of manual labor.

• Treasury, Procurement, Contracts:
  • There is no connection with budgeting and fact;
  • Significant development of IT systems is required due to business development.

As of November 2023, the Holding includes 30 enterprises, including the Management Company, the Trading House and service companies.

Holding management processes are completely centralized (finance, purchasing, sales, maintenance of main production facilities).

IT Landscape: Typical 1C Configurations

• 1C: Enterprise Accounting 3.0;
• 1C: Accounting department of an agricultural enterprise;
• 1C: Accounting Department of Elevator and Feed Mill;

-1S:ZUP; -1C:ERP Agro-industrial complex.

Proprietary configurations:

• DDS (cash flow),
• Document management subsystem.

The project covered several enterprises, the holding has a complex organizational structure, which requires coordination and management of many different aspects.

The complex budget model of the enterprise includes more than 70 interrelated types of reports. Consolidate across multiple enterprise perimeters. The payment coordination system is highly redesigned compared to the standard functionality.

To ensure the effective operation of the system, it was necessary to carry out integration with 30 regulated accounting systems on the configurations "Enterprise Accounting," "Agricultural Enterprise Accounting," "Elevator and Feed Mill Accounting," which required significant efforts from the implementation team.

During the project:

• The web service has been improved to collect financial reporting data for the customer's needs.
• The loan portfolio has been finalized: the possibility of taking into account subsidies and commissions in the loan agreement schedules has been implemented, the standard options for setting up interest calculation have been expanded, the possibility of setting up the distribution of the loan amount by business areas has been introduced, as well as its own set of reports on the loan portfolio.
• It is possible to customize the distribution of the lease amount by business areas and developed its own set of reports on the leasing portfolio.
• Consistent processes of payment coordination through: approval of ZnO itself; a non-standard document "register for payment," which allows at the stage of approval of the register to separate the payment items of ZnO, to agree on the register of ZnO for the payment day; the change in the status of ZnO to Approved was finalized - during the approval of registers for payment (group approval of payments for all organizations of the group).

Solution components used:

• 1C: Holding Management 8;
• 1C: Accounting 8 (more than 30 bases);
• MS SQL - database (DBMS);
• IIS - web server.

The solution is built on the basis of software products on the 1C platform, modified for the customer's specifics, using web services to obtain data from accounting databases and output to reporting.

As a result of the project:

• General Ledger Economic Reporting (Budgeting):
  • The 1S:UKh implements budgeting functionality with the necessary and sufficient detail;
  • The process of obtaining actual data from accounting systems is automated.

• G/L Financial Instruments:
  • Consolidated financial statements are collected in CU;
  • All forms of reports declared by the Customer are correctly formed;
  • The accounting of subsidies works correctly;
  • User instructions prepared.

• Treasury:
  • The Payment Requisitions creation process is set up in CU;
  • In CU, the process of approval of Requests for payment and limiting is set up and started;
  • Processes adjacent to Payment Requests are configured and operating correctly in CU;
  • Analytical reports are correctly generated in CU according to the requirements stated by the Customer.