Case Study: Gruppo Poli achieves faster, company-wide decision-making and unified planning with BOARD

Business-wide Intelligent Planning at Poli Group Achieving actionable insights across Finance, Sales, Logistics, HR, and Group Management

Poli Group is a family-rooted, large-scale Italian retailer operating 69 stores under 8 brands with €555M in sales and 1,700 employees. Facing fragmented, spreadsheet-based planning and daily processing of more than 90 million records, the company needed a faster, more reliable planning and analysis system to improve management control—especially commercial variance analysis, where small margin swings translate to multi-million-euro impacts.

Poli implemented the BOARD unified BI and performance-management platform (with Xpro Consulting support) to consolidate financial planning, fast monthly closings, budgeting, personnel and logistics analysis, and operational reporting down to SKU-store-department level. The solution delivered real-time, aligned processes and clearer KPIs, enabling faster decisions, better inventory and personnel management, and comprehensive monthly P&L reporting; today BOARD supports thousands of weekly reporting and data-entry sessions and provides the detailed variance insights that drive improvements across the group.

Gruppo Poli

Sergio Del Pin

Group Controller