Manufacturing finance leaders are entering 2026 with a sharper mandate than ever before: protect profitability while enabling growth in an industry that continues to deal with price fluctuations, capacity constraints, workforce shortages, compliance obligations, and constant digital disruption.  Your role is no longer simply reporting financial results. Your role is shaping what happens next.  Annual planning...

If you’ve been in manufacturing finance for more than a week, you already know this: your numbers rarely move in a straight line.  One month, bookings are strong and everyone feels upbeat. The next month, billings slow down because production hit a bottleneck, or quality checks took longer than expected, or a customer delayed approval by...

The New Playbook for Daily Financial Foresight in Manufacturing  Picture this:  Production schedules are aligned.   Order fulfillment looks stable.   Supply chain signals are green.   Margins are on track.  That was last night.  By morning, three small disruptions emerge:  A supplier extends lead times on a key raw material  An unexpected surge in demand hits two...

Selecting financial analytics and planning software should be simple. But today, it often feels like decoding a thousand-page product manual filled with buzzwords, big promises, and very little clarity.  For manufacturing companies, this choice is even more critical.  Margins move fast. Demand shifts unpredictably. Raw material costs fluctuate. Operational decisions need to be backed by real numbers — not...

Turning Manufacturing Data into Real-Time Decisions Factories today never stop moving — machines hum, teams collaborate, and shipments roll out. But behind all this motion lies one question every manufacturing leader asks: Are your decisions powered by insight or just instinct? The Challenge: When Data Doesn’t Talk Every manufacturer sits on a goldmine of data...