Case Study: Rethink Food reduces budgeting time and reclaims 2.5 months of work with Planful

Leading Food & Beverages Company cuts budgeting time in half with Planful

Rethink Food, a nonprofit working to build a more sustainable food system, faced manual and time-consuming financial processes. With operations across two legal entities using separate QuickBooks instances, their finance team struggled with manual data consolidation, slow reporting, and lengthy budgeting cycles, which hindered their ability to manage complex funding and provide timely insights as they expanded.

By implementing Planful, Rethink Food unified its financial data and automated consolidation. The Planful platform enabled real-time budget visibility for department heads, improved scenario planning, and streamlined reporting. As a result, Planful helped cut the annual budget cycle from over two months to under one, reduced quarterly board report preparation by 33%, and reclaimed an estimated 2.5 months of manual work annually, allowing the lean team to focus on strategic decisions.