Case Study: Norbord achieves a 9-day faster close and one-hour global forecasting with Longview

Norbord - Customer Case Study

Norbord, a $1B wood‑panel manufacturer with 2,700 employees and 13 operations across the US, Europe and Canada, faced painful, Excel‑based consolidation, budgeting and reporting processes. Data collection and report development were labor‑intensive and cumbersome, creating long cycle times and risk to accuracy.

Longview implemented a consolidated planning and consolidation solution—annual budgets plus quarterly and weekly forecasts, driver‑based bottom‑up planning, global version control, mill‑level what‑if scenarios, SKU‑level profitability and automated EBITDA—plus automated journals, intercompany eliminations and multi‑currency FX reporting in USD. The changes cut the close by nine days, reduced forecast actualization from 15 working days to one hour by a single global user, improved auditability and management confidence, and streamlined report development and distribution.

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