Campari 10-Month Journey: Raising the Bar for Workforce Planning
Campari Group streamlined workforce planning, unifying HR and finance and achieving a 10-month global rollout with improved accuracy and agility. (avvale.com)
Campari Group is a major player in the global spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, spanning across Aperitifs, Agave spirits, Whiskeys and Rum, as well as Cognac and Champagne. The Group was founded in 1860 and today is the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry. (avvale.com)
The Challenge
At the heart of the challenge was a desire for unification: a single, dynamic planning model that could scale with the business, reflect Campari Group’s strategic priorities, and foster shared ownership between HR and Finance. (avvale.com)
At the same time, the group sought to fully leverage its existing ecosystem by integrating SuccessFactors at the core of the new planning model, ensuring data cohesion and maximizing return on past digital investments. The process complexity presented opportunities for simplification that would enable easier management and allow the business to consistently meet its execution timelines. (avvale.com)
As Campari Group’s global footprint continued to grow, so did the urgency for a scalable and unified workforce planning solution that could support both local and group-level strategic decision-making. (avvale.com)
The Approach
Through a comprehensive analysis phase, Avvale and Campari Group’s Global HR and FP&A teams jointly identified the core functionalities required for the new solution and designed a new optimized planning process that can leverage the information of the HCM system. (avvale.com)
This cross-functional partnership enabled the design of an intuitive and scalable model that balanced information granularity, planning flexibility, and user experience. The project began with a pilot in two countries, allowing the team to validate and refine the global planning logic in a real-world setting. Once optimized and actively used across one full planning cycle, the model was rolled out across Campari Group’s network. (avvale.com)
Within a wider business planning transformation, Campari Group implemented, together with Avvale, a Workforce Planning tool based on SAP Analytics Cloud across their global enterprise in just 10 months. Now, Campari Group has a single planning solution that has empowered the cooperation of HR and Finance and significantly reduced the elapsed time in the workforce planning process. (avvale.com)
Key Enhancements / Results
The initiative delivered several improvements:
- A streamlined and unified planning process
- Improved data accuracy and visibility
- Greater planning efficiency
- Stronger collaboration between HR and Finance teams
- Rapid scenario impact simulation
- Reduced manual effort
- Real-time insights with standardized KPIs for workforce budgeting
With less effort and within a condensed timeframe, all subsidiaries can now generate workforce budgets using real-time insights while minimizing manual intervention. (avvale.com)
