Case Study: Baxters Food Group achieves streamlined global planning and improved forecasting with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service

Baxters Food Group Drives Efficiency in Expanding Food Manufacturing Business with Improved Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting

Baxters Food Group is a family-owned UK food manufacturer known for soups, preserves and condiments that expanded globally through acquisitions, including a major U.S. purchase in 2014. As the business grew into the US, Canada, Poland and Australia, its small IT team struggled with legacy on-premise Hyperion Essbase systems and complex Excel models that made forecasting, planning and budgeting slow, error-prone and inconsistent across business units.

Baxters implemented Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service and Oracle analytics (Financial, Supply Chain, Procurement & Spend) with partner Qubix’s CloudBridge to automate data feeds from finance and ERP systems. The cloud solution created a single global planning process, removed offline files and manual models, improved forecast accuracy by enabling planning against actuals, and provided a stable, scalable platform to reduce waste and overhead as the company continues its global rollout.

Baxters Food Group

Elaine McKechnie

Head of Group Management Information Systems