Case Study: The Kraft Heinz Company reduces IT management costs nearly 5X and gains real-time budgeting with Oracle Cloud

The Kraft Heinz Company Implements Zero-Based Budgeting, Improves Planning Accuracy, and Reduces IT Management Costs by Nearly 5x with Cloud Solution

The Kraft Heinz Company, the world’s fifth-largest food and beverage firm, needed to roll out a global cost-management initiative based on zero-based budgeting while replacing an error-prone Excel/Access system that couldn’t scale to ~1,500 users across 40 countries and five time zones. The company required real-time budget consolidation, flexible control for budget owners, integration with back-end SAP/Oracle finance systems, and a rapid four- to five-month implementation to meet management timelines.

Kraft Heinz implemented Oracle Cloud EPM Planning and Oracle Cloud ERP, completing the global rollout in four months and integrating 600+ users from a recent merger in under eight weeks. The cloud solution automated consolidation, enabled near-real-time reporting, provided a standardized global budgeting template with Excel and web entry, enforced security controls, and improved planning accuracy—while reducing IT implementation, management, and maintenance costs nearly fivefold.

The Kraft Heinz Company

Julian Sherwin

Head of Zero Based Budgeting