Insights

Optimising working capital requirements is key to assessing the efficiency of profits, and something CFOs are expected to manage at all times. Do you know how well working capital is managed in your business and where improvements could be made?

The global demand for Robotic Process Automation is rapidly increasing as businesses seek to harness enterprise technology to streamline processes and increase productivity.

China’s One Belt, One Road outbound investment strategy presents a wealth of opportunity along major global land and maritime trade routes. But how can business owners outside China take advantage?

After deciding on a vision, there are two main barriers that generally prevent companies from following through on their initial ideas: Money, and expertise.

The reluctance is understandable. Your business has showed good signs of health for years (or decades), in large part because you’ve concentrated on creating value in the field you know best. Within a short span of time, you’ve begun to hear plenty of talk about the need for businesses to transform themselves for entry into the digital world.

The global automotive supply chain is one of the largest, most complex, challenging and yet sensitive market networks. In this article we view this supply chain through the eyes of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers. We highlight external forces impacting the market, suggest approaches for those looking to move up the value chain, and give insight into the future of the industry.

Many organisations have placed tremendous efforts in implementing a new ERP system or improving their current system. They correctly believed that the ERP system would bring lots of advantages to their organisation, such as process efficiency improvements, benefits of a single database, and data analytics capabilities for corporate strategy.

Automating and optimising your supply chain can help save money and facilitate growth. So could it work for your business?

Asia Pacific is a vast and diverse region, and one of the strongest performing parts of the global economy. GDP growth across Asia Pacific is forecast to hit 5.6% in 2017, well above the 3.6% projected worldwide, and 5.5% in 2018.

Every business, every day, generates an incredible amount of data. The easiest and cheapest way to store all this information is to adopt the ‘landfill’ model of keeping everything and moving as much of it as possible to the cloud. But we find that many are doing this without even trying to keep track of what they have.

This guide has been prepared for the assistance of those interested in doing business in Thailand. It does not cover the subject exhaustively but is intended to answer some of the important, broad questions that may arise.

This report provides an analysis of Grant Thornton in Thailand’s annual hotel industry survey. The survey looks specifically at 4 and 5 star hotels in Thailand and was conducted in April and May 2016.