D&W Fine Pack Chooses Planful To Drive Intuitive Financial Consistency and Visibility

>80% faster

Generating monthly report packages

7 plants, 1 format

Consistency across each facility’s reports

<4 months

From kickoff to “full speed” on Planful

D&W Fine Pack (D&W) works hard to live up to the highest standards and become the supplier of choice for customers buying its containers made from paperboard, compostable, aluminum, plastic, and other materials. The company prides itself on its national footprint, quality products, and custom and eco-friendly packaging solutions. When it was time to move off spreadsheet-based consolidations and build a foundation for future growth, D&W turned to Planful.

Challenge: Move away from manual close and consolidation workflows

D&W runs seven manufacturing and distribution facilities across the US, with a team of controllers managing financial reporting, budgeting, planning, and more across four different ERP platforms. For years, and like many growing organizations, the company had relied on Excel as the backbone of its financial processes. But, along with the manual effort, the potential for error, and file frustrations that come with spreadsheets, D&W also had different controllers generating financial reporting in varying formats.

At the company’s headquarters in Illinois, additional inefficiencies were created as leadership and corporate finance teams sifted through the data. So, they decided to bring in a purpose-built financial performance management system to modernize and streamline close and consolidation.

Enter Debbie Nona