Case Study: Hellmann Worldwide Logistics achieves real-time global performance management with Mercur Business Control

Managing performance in 56 countries in real time

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, a global logistics provider operating in 56 countries, needed a reliable way to manage budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation across a decentralized organization with many users and ERP systems. As the company grew, its existing processes had to support larger data volumes, more complex reallocations, and faster performance insight, making manual spreadsheet-based work increasingly impractical. Mercur Business Control was used to help centralize and standardize these performance management processes.

Mercur implemented automated data integration from multiple ERP systems, along with currency conversions, eliminations, reallocations, and consolidations, giving Hellmann a unified real-time view of group performance. The solution now supports nearly 600 users and allows local controllers and managers to handle reporting and budgeting with minimal customization, while the central team manages the process through Work Process Control. According to Mercur, the results include less time spent on planning cycles, faster and more flexible reporting, improved analysis, less manual work, and stronger ownership across the business.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics