Case Study: Kraft Heinz achieves 20–30x reduction in intercompany outages to under $1M/month with BlackLine Intercompany Hub

Kraft Heinz Improves Global Intercompany Transaction Efficiency & Control with BlackLine Intercompany Hub

The Kraft Heinz Company, a top-five global food and beverage firm formed by a 2015 merger, faced major intercompany accounting complexity across dozens of entities and multiple ERPs. Reconciling millions of non-product invoices was highly manual and uncoordinated, producing $20–30 million in monthly intercompany outages and limited visibility for local teams.

Kraft Heinz implemented BlackLine (Intercompany Hub, Account Reconciliations, and Transaction Matching) to automate workflows, validate transactions (including complex European VAT), and standardize global processes. The solution cut outages to under $1 million a month, strengthened controls and compliance, greatly reduced manual effort, improved visibility, and achieved a 93% transaction-matching rate.

Kraft Heinz

Paul Dubbelman

Finance Lead, Global Business Services