Build a More Resilient Finance Plan for Food & Beverage
Margin pressure, volatile input costs, changing consumer demand and complex supply chains make planning in Food & Beverage increasingly difficult. Our latest report explores how Food & Beverage finance teams can build a more agile and resilient approach to FP&A.
Planning in Food & Beverage is getting harder to get right
Finance teams need to react quickly, understand the impact of change and give the business confidence in the numbers. But when planning, budgeting and forecasting still depend heavily on spreadsheets and disconnected data, responding at speed becomes a challenge.
Margin pressure
Production capacity, energy prices and waste all change the margin actually earned on each product.
Volatile input costs
Ingredient and packaging costs move, and leaders need to see the effect while there is still time to adjust the plan.
Changing consumer demand
Retailer orders and promotions alter volume, and a revised sales forecast changes the production plan.
Complex supply chains
Decisions connect procurement, production, commercial and finance, often with each team in its own spreadsheet.
When every team plans from a separate spreadsheet, finance has to reconcile different assumptions before it can explain the result, and by then conditions may have changed again.
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Practical guidance for Food & Beverage finance teams who want to plan with more speed and confidence.
- Respond faster to changes in costs, demand and margins
- Improve forecasting across products, channels and business units
- Run scenarios to understand the financial impact of changing conditions
- Reduce reliance on complex spreadsheets and manual processes
- Give finance and operational teams greater confidence in their numbers
- Create a planning process that can scale as the business grows
Move from reacting to planning with confidence
The right FP&A approach gives finance teams more than a better budget. It creates greater visibility, faster decision-making and the ability to model what happens next.
Greater visibility
See the impact of change across products, channels and business units as it happens.
Faster decision-making
Move from gathering and reconciling spreadsheets to acting on a plan you can trust.
Model what happens next
Run scenarios to understand the financial impact of changing conditions before they land.
Budgeting, forecasting, reporting and scenarios in one controlled environment
Mercur by Pacera helps finance teams bring budgeting, forecasting, reporting and scenario planning together in one controlled environment.
Budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning and performance analysis, connected in a single planning process built to scale with your business.
Learn moreFinancial close, reconciliations, journals and close controls.
Learn moreGroup consolidation and financial reporting across entities.
Learn moreAs your finance transformation develops, Pacera brings FP&A together with financial close and consolidation through Mercur, Aico and AARO, providing a connected Office of the CFO platform built to scale with your organisation.
Make your next forecast more useful than your last
Get the Food & Beverage FP&A report and see how connected planning helps finance teams plan with confidence.
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