
Streamlining Financial Planning: Boosting Growth in Logistics
Successful IBM Planning Analytics solution implementation
Get to know DS Smith's customer success story.

The solution has been developed to be scalable in order to cover future needs,
and allows structural changes such to be integrated without a major re-design of
the existing system.
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Better planning
Significantly reduced dependencyon Excel for planning
Seamless traceability
Improved data granularity and traceability across business lines
Scalable model
Adaptable for structural changes & additional calculations or models
DS Smith, a leading global provider of sustainable packaging solutions, launched a strategic initiative to modernize its financial planning landscape. The goal: day to day working tool for the controllers, providing the content for budgets and forecasts to the group and integrate the results in the consolidation engine Hyperion Financial Management. The ultimate goal is to bring greater collaboration across the business and to move towards more collaborative forecasting practices.
Use Case: FP&A
Technology: IBM