FSN: First Drinks Brands goes live with Geac MPC performance management solution

First Drinks Brands goes live with Geac MPC performance management solution

6th February 2006
A Geac MPC performance management solution has gone live at First Drinks Brands, a supplier of well known labels such as Glenfiddich, Grants Blended Whisky, Disaronno, Warninks and Mateus. The solution is being used by 70 users across all commercial departments of First Drinks Brands Limited on a Microsoft SQL Server database, following a 12 month implementation.

Geac MPC is expected to enable First Drinks Brands to achieve significant efficiency gains through improved reporting, planning and forecasting. The software will also provide a central repository for all performance information, enabling all levels of the company's commercial team to have greater visibility into key business information. Over time, First Drinks Brands plans to use Geac MPC to enable scenario planning and more detailed reporting.

First Drinks Brands is a long-standing Geac customer, so making the decision to upgrade to Geac MPC was an easy one. Consistency was paramount in order to minimise inconvenience and disruption to end users through having to learn a new system.

Paul McDonald, business solutions controller at First Drinks Brands, comments:

“Understanding how to develop effective performance management is a key challenge for organisations in every sector. In our business, appropriate forecasting has a direct impact on our profit margins, so ensuring that this is performed properly is key to us achieving our targets and overall strategy. Budgets have to be aligned to plans and forecasts used to update stakeholders on the likely achievement of them, which must be available in real-time and measurable. Geac MPC enables us to do just that and it is an integral tool in our future growth plans.”

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