Business Conveyor Belt brings financial and operational information together to help you understand your current position and expected future cash movement.
By connecting information from your accounting software, job management systems and future planning activities, BCB provides a forward-looking view of your business.
One Forward-looking View
Many businesses rely on multiple systems to manage their operations.
BCB brings this information together into a single forecast, helping you understand:
- Expected cash inflows
- Expected cash outflows
- Forecast cash position
- Future timing of payments and receipts
This allows you to spend less time moving between systems and more time making informed decisions.
Understand What's Coming Next
BCB helps you identify potential challenges before they occur.
Rather than only reviewing historical information, you can see:
- Upcoming costs
- Future receipts
- Planned business activities
- Potential cashflow pressure points
This provides more time to prepare for future business decisions.
Explore Different Outcomes
Business decisions often involve uncertainty. Scenarios allow you to test how different assumptions may affect your forecast without changing your baseline data.
Examples include:
- Hiring new staff
- Purchasing equipment
- Winning new work
- Delayed customer payments
- Increased operating costs
Scenario changes remain separate from your baseline until you decide to apply them.
Connect Operational Activity with Financial Outcomes
BCB doesn't just look at accounting information.
Connected operational systems such as Simpro help bring visibility to:
- Jobs
- Quotes
- Work in Progress (WIP)
- Planned work
This helps connect future operational activity with future cash movement.
Keep Your Forecast Relevant
A forecast is most useful when it reflects current business conditions.
As new information becomes available, you can:
- Sync updated accounting data
- Add Projected Transactions
- Create Scenarios
- Update operational information
This helps ensure your forecast reflects your latest business assumptions.
Bringing It All Together
BCB helps you understand:
- Where your cash position is today
- Where your cash position may be heading
- How future work may affect your business
- How different decisions could change future outcomes
- Potential risks before they become problems