Case Study: Granarolo Group achieves a 5-day financial close and unified strategic, financial and operational planning with Board

Unified Strategic, Financial, and Operational Planning at Granarolo

Granarolo, Italy’s leading milk and dairy group (≈€1.3B revenue, ~2,700 employees, 30,000 daily deliveries, operations in 76 countries), needed a new international controlling model to support rapid global growth and a highly diversified product portfolio. The company faced large data volumes, disparate ERPs across 30+ subsidiaries, and a complex sales/logistics structure — all requiring a unified solution to speed month‑end close, improve forecasting, and optimize purchasing and distribution.

Granarolo deployed the Board CPM & BI platform as a single integration layer for strategic, financial, tactical and operational planning, consolidations, and analytics, linked to SAP and other systems. The platform enabled weekly closed‑loop sales planning, optimization algorithms for distribution and purchasing, and unified financial consolidation; results included shortening the monthly close from 20 to 5 days, halving finance’s daily workload, reducing data points by 30%, and delivering more efficient logistics and faster integration of acquisitions.

Granarolo Group

Mario Cavallo

International Financial Controller