Case Study: Jacobs Douwe Egberts accelerates annual reporting with Workiva

Jacobs Douwe Egberts speeds annual reporting by 1 week with Workiva

Jacobs Douwe Egberts, a major coffee company, faced a slow and disconnected annual reporting process. Their challenges included difficulty collaborating with global stakeholders across time zones and manually intensive tasks like formatting documents and consolidating data from Excel and Word. To address this, they adopted the Workiva platform for financial reporting.

By implementing Workiva's cloud-based solution, Jacobs Douwe Egberts connected its data and people. This allowed for real-time collaboration, automated updates from source files, and a transparent audit trail. The results included accelerating their annual reporting process, saving a week on their financials, and significantly reducing time spent on administrative tasks. Workiva also positioned the team to efficiently handle future demands, including a potential IPO.

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