Case Study: Golden State Foods achieves 50% time savings and faster, scalable operational planning with Planful

Golden State Foods Extends Planful to Scale and Accelerate Operational Planning Efforts

Golden State Foods, a global foodservice supplier that feeds 1 billion people daily, had already modernized FP&A consolidation, budgeting, and reporting with Planful but found its operational planning stuck in slow, error-prone Excel processes. Quarterly re-forecasting and budget updates required extensive manual edits, produced inconsistent results, and limited visibility—making it difficult for FP&A to keep pace with a fast-changing business.

GSF extended Planful with partner KeenVision to deploy Dynamic Planning for manufacturing revenue and cost planning, creating a single, collaborative budgeting and forecasting platform. The result: faster, more transparent planning—quarterly business review prep time was cut in half (two weeks to one), budget scenarios can be run in minutes, data collection is automated, and FP&A gained greater agility, reduced stress, and stronger alignment with business leaders.

Golden State Foods

Lauren Bissell

FP&A Continuous Improvement Manager