Case Study: Ferraro Foods achieves a 55% reduction in close cycles and scales FP&A with Planful

Ferraro Foods Scales FP&A, Cuts Close Cycles By 55% With Planful

Ferraro Foods, a >$1B foodservice distributor serving over 8,000 customers across 26 states with 14,000+ items from seven distribution locations, was held back by spreadsheet-driven close and consolidation processes and multiple disconnected ERPs. Monthly closes could take up to two weeks, relied on error-prone “add-a-tab” Excel workflows, and demanded excessive manual effort to reconcile and trace variances.

Working with CFO Solutions and adding Adra by Trintech, Ferraro deployed Planful in 90 days to centralize data, automate reconciliations, and manage close calendars and tasks. The company moved to daily financials, cut its monthly close to 4.5 days (a 55% reduction), scaled FP&A to just two analysts supporting the entire organization, and expanded into planning, reporting, auditing, and KPI tracking with greater confidence in the numbers.

Ferraro Foods

Johann Cabe

VP of FP&A