How Bonnier Publishers enables performance management for everyone
“Knowledge of expected sales, royalties and printing costs is now central to our publishing decisions.”
“Knowledge of expected sales, royalties and printing costs is now central to our publishing decisions.”
Bonnier Publishers is part of the Bonnier Group. The Swedish publishing operations belong to Bonnier Books Sweden, which is part of the Bonnier AB group. The company works with both book publishers and book clubs and operates within international publishing.
Bonnier Publishers needed to move away from time-consuming, manual budgeting, consolidation, and analysis processes that created errors and poor decision support.
The company wanted a system that could support budgeting, rolling forecasts, profitability analysis, and ongoing business analysis across its different publishers and book clubs. The goal was to gain up-to-date, detailed insights and enable analysis down to transaction level when needed.
Business Control is continuously updated and allows users to analyze data from a high level down to individual transactions and scanned invoices.
Rolling forecasts replaced traditional annual budgets, and flexible templates allow updates for 12-month and tertiary forecasts.
The system supports detailed analysis of individual titles, sales, royalties, and printing costs, improving financial decision-making.
More than 100 users across 10 book clubs and multiple publishers now use the same system while keeping their own structures and models.
With Web Deploy and centralized upgrades, users can start the system directly in a browser, significantly reducing IT support and maintenance needs.
Knowledge of expected sales revenue, royalties and printing costs based on experience values from previous issues is today a central part of the publisher’s decision.
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