Case Study: Global Container Terminals achieves streamlined forecasting and real-time strategic insights with Workday Adaptive Planning

Global Container Terminals Makes Waves Enabling Strategic Finance

Global Container Terminals (GCT), a century-old operator of four state-of-the-art container terminals on North America’s East and West coasts, faced growing capacity and competitiveness pressures as ships and cargo volumes increased. Disjointed, decentralized planning and time-consuming manual reporting made it difficult to produce accurate budgets and forecasts or free up time for strategic analysis.

By implementing Workday Adaptive Planning and OfficeConnect, GCT built a real-time income statement forecasting model and automated reporting, enabling ad-hoc analysis with a click. The result: significantly shorter budget and forecast cycles, immediate access to accurate KPIs (labor rates, revenue rates, efficiency), fewer late-night “fire drills,” and a shift from low-value tasks to strategic financial decision-making.

Global Container Terminals

Sid Hathiramani

Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis