About Greencore
Greencore Group plc. is a leading manufacturer of convenience foods.
Greencore supplies a wide range of chilled, frozen, and ambient foods to some of the most successful retail and food service customers in the UK. Greencore is headquartered in Dublin and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Their total revenues exceed £1.3billion. Greencore is an employer of 13,000 people.
The Requirement
To optimise the use of SAP Planning for consolidation & financial reporting, the group made a strategic decision to re-build the solution.
The key deliverables were identified as:
- Optimised Consolidation and Translation calculations with native Planning functions
- Simplify and better automate data integration from source systems
- Streamlined business processes, utilising improved Input Forms with supporting calculations and informative In-Process Reports
- Re-designed budget and forecast process and templates to reduce the risk of data loss
- Reconfigured key dimensions, Flow, and Audit Trail and rationalised Scope and Currency
- A new Intercompany Matching Process
- Timely, easy to execute housekeeping tasks to optimise system performance without impacting system access and availability
- Re-development of Formal Reports and Report Packs
"The Decision Inc. Project Team have excellent knowledge of the SAP Planning product and this experience was invaluable in terms of understanding and diagnosing the issues we faced along with gaining knowledge of our business processes and then proposing how to remedy these problems to deliver a workable solution fit for purpose. The project team were very flexible and adapted well to work with Greencore IT project team. This collaboration helped to deliver a successful project that has been received by the business users extremely well."
Rachel BondFinance Business Improvement Manager, Greencore plc
