Case Study: CSM Bakery achieves 70% faster time-to-market with Planview Enterprise (Planview)

CSM Bakery Reduces Time-to-Market with Planview Enterprise and Stage-Gate Automation

CSM Bakery Solutions is a global B2B producer and distributor of bakery supplies with roughly 36 manufacturing sites, 25 distribution centers, and nearly 10,000 employees. After a strategic acquisition, the company needed to accelerate product development to meet customer demand — tightening commercialization, balancing the product portfolio, improving forecasting and cross-functional communication — but was hampered by fragmented tools, multiple databases and manual spreadsheets that obscured project status and priorities.

CSM implemented Planview Enterprise with Stage‑Gate automation, standardizing processes, centralizing data, and assigning clear roles and responsibilities with executive ownership of the rollout. The system enabled pipeline visibility, automated workflows and real‑time reporting, cutting average time‑to‑market from 150 days to 45 days (about a 70% reduction), improving prioritization, resource utilization and customer satisfaction.

CSM Bakery

Claudette Cress

Senior Project Manager