Case Study: Solar Coca-Cola achieves faster, deeper financial insights with IBM Planning Analytics

Solar Coca-Cola’s new operating model succeeds with the help of a continuous, integrated planning platform

Solar Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola’s second-largest bottler in Brazil, needed a faster and more flexible way to handle increasingly complex financial reporting, planning, and simulation. Its spreadsheet-based models were too manual and slow to support the company’s decentralized operating model, especially when managers needed granular, real-time data for pricing and margin decisions. IBM helped Solar Coca-Cola modernize its finance processes with IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics.

IBM and its partner CTI Global implemented a continuous, integrated planning platform that integrated with Solar’s existing reporting environment and gave finance users self-service control through business rules. The new solution cut spreadsheet work by saving 5–7 days per month, freed up more than 25% of departmental time, and increased reporting output by 10x with no added headcount, while delivering deeper, more timely insights across the business.

Solar Coca-Cola

Hermeson Anibal Marques

Sr. Financial Manager