How I-ne Tripled Operating Margin with FP&A and Management DX

I-ne CFO Yoshinori Hara and Loglass CEO Tomoya Fukawa discuss how building an FP&A organization and deploying Loglass lifted operating margin from 3.3% to double digits.

• At I-ne’s IPO (2020), operating margin was just 3.3%; it has since more than tripled to double digits
• Two levers drove the improvement: establishing an FP&A team that bridges numbers and the front line, and accelerating decisions through Loglass
• The FP&A team deliberately mixes finance professionals with sales veterans, split into a Corporate FP&A unit and Division FP&A units
• Loglass cut budget preparation work by 300 hours per year, shifting time from pure planning (P) toward analysis and action (A)
• Logistics cost ratio was halved from 12% to 6%; COGS was compressed as far as possible without degrading customer experience
• Loglass is used to model upside and downside scenarios for revenue and profit, making opportunities and risks visible in real time
• Fukawa: in the AI era, the real edge in management control is how well a company accumulates process-context data, not just outcome data
• Hara: as AI automates quantitative analysis, the CFO’s role should shift toward the art of reading the genuine conviction and energy of marketers and business unit heads

2026-04-08 · Watch on YouTube

Japanese page: I-neが営業利益率3倍を達成した経営管理DX