This is going to be a true story.

A true story of a business case of complex corporate

finance made simple. First of all, we're the

biggest,

and largest Coca-Cola bottling company in the world based on revenue.

We operate - and are leaders in - one of the biggest

FMCG sectors.

It's the soft drink professional sector with a net worth of over 100 billion.

On an annual basis

we sell approximately 14.2 billion liters of our famous brands.

So we have a customer base that is reaching the 300 million

benchmark. We operate in 13 countries, solely in

Western Europe.

We have 25,000 employees across our territories.

We were looking after Supply Chain Finance Transformation

which goes into three integral points.

One being a leaner finance function, the second one

automated planning, and the third one being optimized reporting.

So we wanted to move away from the ever haunting Excel

models, Access databases, and

engage in new-age tools and systems that can bring us forward.

We perform fully-fledged country consolidation

and also total Coca-Cola European Partners

supply chain consolidation.

What do we cover by that?

I mean,

it's pretty much the whole myriad of activities that supply chain has today.

For us,

from our CCEP perspective,

it means 48 plants, 85 warehouses,

everything that you can imagine around logistics and distribution,

from freight to branch local delivery,

division delivery,

CWPs and so on.

We were coming from a culture

of overnight loads of data

- of overnight data transfers. Today, we have

every 15 minutes, a data transfer from our ERP system to the cloud,

from the cloud to the tool. So compared to the 24

24 hour cycle,

15 minutes is definitely a huge revolution.

That little red button that says 'Approval All',

we call it the mother of all buttons, just because it

allows us to consolidate in a split second.

Yes,

consolidation can happen with one button,

yes,

it can happen for 48 manufacturing plants and for 85 warehouses.

In the beginning...

Actually,

last year if,

somebody told me that's possible.

I would be very,

very skeptical,

but I can guarantee you that is the mother of all buttons,

and it works.