PERNOD RICARD USA CASE STUDY CPG/Manufacturing

Pernod Ricard USA produces, imports, and Benefits Realized markets many of the nation’s most prestigious As Pernod Ricard continues to spirits and wine brands. The company’s brands grow its 500+ US product lines, include such prestigious spirits as ABSOLUT® Vodka, The Glenlivet® Alithya’s enhancements have cut Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Chivas Regal® Scotch Whisky, Jameson® processing time by more than Irish Whiskey, Seagram’s Extra Dry Gin®, Beefeater® Gin, Martell® 35%. The faster processing has Cognac, Malibu® Rum, Kahlúa® Liqueur, and Hiram Walker® made it easier for Pernod’s IT Liqueurs. team to handle business user requests. And, Pernod Ricard can Client's needs now accurately budget its 15,000 SKUs, secure in the With 500 product lines, close to 15,000 SKUs, and stakeholders knowledge that their business dispersed throughout the globe, Pernod Ricard required a fast, agile, department colleagues have the and reliable tool to meet the complex financial reporting needs of its tools they need to model sprawling organization. What the company had, however, was an complex business scenarios inefficient and inconsistent process that impeded the IT department’s quickly and with precision. ability to meet its financial clients’ reporting and analysis needs. For example, if a Dallas-based finance user asked for a mid-day refresh of the P&L data for a large Southwest Chivas distributor, IT could seldom fulfill the request in under three hours, nor could the team predict with confidence the actual time a process would take.

Pernod Ricard was determined to elevate the quality of its financial reporting and analysis capabilities to the level of its other operations. IT considered enhancing the solution internally, but its Hyperion team was already tasked with critical projects. So Pernod Ricard turned once again to Alithya, its long-time Hyperion consultant, to undertake a project that required the consultants’ unmatched Hyperion technical expertise and business acumen.

Alithya.com | [email protected] | 914-253-6600 Alithya’s Solution With the results of the assessment in hand, Alithya streamlined Pernod’s solution leveraging advanced Alithya first conducted a “health assessment” of the Hyperion application, environment, and system design financial reporting and analysis system. The techniques. The main components included: consultants found an overloaded system with > Automation scripts to improve logging and reduce 15 different applications, which caused performance maintenance requirements issues in the current environment. The Alithya team determined that several of the modeling calculations, > More efficient calculations operating on appropriate report designs, and automation processes were data set inefficient. Alithya’s infrastructure team also assessed > Configuration settings to speed up the calculations the production server, finding it to be slower than the > The purchase of additional hardware to address the developer server, which caused sluggish performance production server inefficiencies for Pernod’s business users during the day. Where 15 applications once clogged the process, just eight remain. The new system is updated nightly with reliable data accessible instantly by multiple users in locations worldwide.

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