How Bilia strengthened planning and analysis across nearly 100 dealerships with Mercur
“Mercur really simplifies planning work. At all levels!”
“Mercur really simplifies planning work. At all levels!”
Bilia is one of Scandinavia’s largest car retail groups, operating nearly 100 dealerships across Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The company represents leading automotive brands and supports thousands of employees across multiple markets and business units.
With a complex structure and large data volumes, Bilia needed a scalable platform that could support group-wide planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis — while enabling local flexibility for each market.
Bilia wanted to replace fragmented Excel-based processes with a single, group-wide system for budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. The goal was to manage both operational and financial data within the same platform and enable faster, more accurate reporting across the organization.
Another key objective was to integrate planning and reporting directly with Bilia’s data warehouse and financial systems. This would allow managers and controllers to access real-time data, drill down to detailed transaction levels, and build dynamic reports independently.
Finally, Bilia needed a scalable solution that could support hundreds of users, handle millions of transaction rows, and grow with the organization as new dealerships and business units were added.
Mercur became Bilia’s group-wide solution for budgeting, forecasting, and analysis across central functions and nearly 100 dealers in Scandinavia. This created one consistent way of working with financial data across countries, brands, and business units.
Automated calculations and prebuilt logic for different car calculations significantly reduced manual work. Controllers and managers can now create plans and reports much faster, with far fewer errors.
By integrating Mercur with Bilia’s data warehouse, users can analyze large volumes of transactional data at every level. Drill-down functionality enables insight from group level all the way to individual invoices.
The solution supports over 630 users and handles up to 20 million transaction rows annually. Bilia can easily create new reports, input forms, and structures as the organization grows.
With standardized data, multi-currency support, and local market views, managers in Sweden and Norway can analyze performance and act faster. This ensures better control and alignment across the entire group.
Both controllers and managers at all levels, appreciate that so much is already prepared with built-in logic for different calculations. Automatic consolidation and dynamic reports mean big time savings.
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