Budget planning and controlling system of the transnational holding*
(*) – name of the Customer is not disclosed for reasons of confidentiality.
Business area
Transnational logistic corporation.
The annual turnover is of nearly 50 billion USD.
Corporation has offices in more than 220 countries around the world. The staff of employees is nearly 500 000.
Purpose, functions, characteristics
Budget system reflects the organizational structure of the corporation, that consist of independent companies and their departments (100 companies include about 400 departments).
Each department of the company has its own budget.
Department budget is allocated to the projects of that department.
Cash flow accounting of the project is carried out by registration of receipts and expenditure of financial documents (contracts, orders, invoices, etc.). Project costs are written off on defined cost centers. Owners of this cost centers are companies of the holding.
System features:
(*) – name of the Customer is not disclosed for reasons of confidentiality.
Business area
Transnational logistic corporation.
The annual turnover is of nearly 50 billion USD.
Corporation has offices in more than 220 countries around the world. The staff of employees is nearly 500 000.
Purpose, functions, characteristics
Budget system reflects the organizational structure of the corporation, that consist of independent companies and their departments (100 companies include about 400 departments).
Each department of the company has its own budget.
Department budget is allocated to the projects of that department.
Cash flow accounting of the project is carried out by registration of receipts and expenditure of financial documents (contracts, orders, invoices, etc.). Project costs are written off on defined cost centers. Owners of this cost centers are companies of the holding.
System features:
- to combine the projects of different departments to super projects on corporate level;
- to manage long-term projects budget in the several fiscal years;
- to control debtor /creditor partners’ accounts, which are involved in the order execution;
- to get detailed statistical and analytical information for the fiscal year with the monthly split by projects, cost centers, orders, invoices etc;
- to inform the users about the important events through the automated messaging;
- to manage referenced data;
- flexible system of rights and data permission.
Technical details
DBMS: Oracle Database 11g
Programming language: Java
Application server: JBoss Application Server 5.0
Technologies used:
DBMS: Oracle Database 11g
Programming language: Java
Application server: JBoss Application Server 5.0
Technologies used:
- J2EE – component model application,
- EJB 3 (Hibernate) – access to the data base,
- JSP, Struts 2, Tiles, JavaScript – user interface realization,
- Quartz – implementation of scheduled tasks,
- JUnit – modular automatic tests platform.
Project organization
Fixed price contract, scope of work about 9 000 man-hours.
The project was implemented jointly with the partner NearShore Solutions GmbH.
Development term was 7 months. Parallel work with the team of the Customer.
Project management was done by the Customer. GERSIS SOFTWARE managed its development.
Specialists of GERSIS SOFTWARE clarified requirements, developed the main part of the project functionality, developed automated tests and partially developed architecture.
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