Case Study: Cochlear achieves faster, more accurate financial planning and decision-making with Workday Adaptive Planning

Cochlear Accelerates Planning and Analysis to Advance the Miracle of Sound

Cochlear, the Sydney-based global leader in implantable hearing solutions operating in 130 countries, needed to streamline its three‑year planning and get clearer visibility into performance drivers across multiple regions, currencies and product lines. Reliance on Oracle Hyperion and Excel made planning manual, time-consuming and error‑prone, limiting the finance team’s ability to produce accurate forecasts and timely decisions.

Partnering with GK Horizons to implement Adaptive Insights, Cochlear centralized budgeting, automated reporting in local currencies and AUD, and enabled rapid scenario modeling. The solution cut time spent validating and consolidating finances nearly in half, freed finance to focus on strategic analysis, and accelerated more accurate forecasting and faster, data‑driven decision‑making.

Cochlear

John Plummer

Group Planning and Analysis Manager