Case Study: Performance Food Group achieves 97% journal-entry automation and 90% reduction in printing costs with BlackLine

Automating 97% of Journal Entries and Reducing Printing Costs by 90%

Performance Food Group (PFG) is a U.S. food and beverage distributor with 11,000 employees, 67 distribution centers and 11 Merchant’s Mart locations that was hampered by paper‑based account reconciliations and a manual journal process. The company maintained nearly 2,000 binders and stacks of printed pages, which created limited visibility, increased risk of errors, and a highly labor‑intensive month‑end close.

By adopting BlackLine (journals, reconciliations, task management and transaction matching) with minimal IT involvement, PFG digitized its finance close and automated roughly 97% of its 1,900 monthly journal entries. The change cut printing and storage costs by up to 80–90%, shortened reconciliation timelines (56% completed by day five), reduced journal review to about two hours during close, and improved transparency, auditability and data integrity through secure cloud storage.

Performance Food Group

Philip Manoff

Senior Manager of Accounting