Loglass Launches 'Planning Format Management' for Budget and Forecast Formulation

Overview Loglass Inc. (the 'Company') has released the 'Planning Format Management' feature for its cloud management system, 'Loglass.' This feature enables users to design and manage the Excel formats distributed to various departments during budget formulation and forecast updates directly within the Loglass interface.

This functionality allows corporate planning departments to standardize the 'input format'—defining the granularity, items, and dimensions for data entry. By doing so, it reduces manual work involved in distributing, collecting, and consolidating data from departments, thereby minimizing transcription errors and misinterpretations, and ultimately improving planning accuracy.

Background Companies navigate their businesses through budget formulation, forecast updates, and business planning; as business environments change rapidly, the importance of flexible and precise planning grows. In this process, corporate planning departments often prepare, distribute, collect, and consolidate Excel input formats for various departments, and perform difference checks against previous figures. As the number of departments increases, this workload becomes enormous. Differences in formats across departments and the need for manual data processing after collection are major causes of transcription errors and misinterpretations.

To address this, Loglass has introduced this feature to enable corporate planning departments to design and manage 'input templates' on screen and streamline the flow from distribution and collection to consolidation and reflection, thereby ensuring data quality and planning accuracy.

Features and Use Cases ### 1. Creating Layouts for Budget and Forecast Templates Corporate planning departments can design Excel templates necessary for budget and forecast planning directly on the Loglass screen. By specifying analytical dimensions such as departments (organizations), account items, products, and regions, they can prepare templates that align input items across all departments. Standardizing the input template helps prevent rework when consolidating figures from multiple departments.

### 2. Assigning Templates to Departments Templates can be assigned to relevant departments within Loglass. Department representatives can download templates that already include reference values, such as the previous year's budget and actual results, allowing them to start inputting data immediately. Having all necessary comparison data available allows the planning side to collect data on a standardized basis. For companies with many departments, this reduces the burden of version management, pasting reference values, and manual data formatting, significantly shortening the lead time before meetings.

### 3. Importing Collected Files and Updating Formats Departmental representatives can simply upload the Excel files with inputted figures to Loglass, where they are stored as planning data, ready for consolidation, reporting, and analysis. This eliminates the manual effort of formatting disparate files, smoothing the transition from planning to data reflection. Even if organizational changes or account item adjustments occur during the planning process, formats can be updated directly on the Loglass screen, reducing the burden of recreating Excel files and managing revisions.