Case Study: BuyIn cuts monthly close time by 87% with insightsoftware Power ON

Procurement Alliance Cuts Monthly Close Time by 87%, Replacing Excel with Real-time Planning & Writeback in Power BI

BuyIn, the world’s biggest procurement alliance in telecommunications, needed a better way to manage monthly close and procurement reporting across 45 operators and millions of data points. After moving from Excel to Power BI, the team still relied on spreadsheets for controller input, which created manual work, data quality issues, and delays in consolidating and validating reporting.

To solve this, BuyIn implemented insightsoftware’s Power ON with Visual Planner to add write-back directly inside Power BI. This replaced spreadsheet exchanges with real-time data entry and collaboration, cutting monthly procurement reporting close time from 5+ days to under 2 days and reducing time spent on monthly reporting from 12+ hours to under 3 hours, while also improving data quality and enabling additional use cases for Finance.

BuyIn

Carolina Deutschbein

BI Manager – Controller