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Associated British Foods
Associated British Foods Adopts Oracle for Record to Report
Associated British Foods, a consumer staples organization in the United Kingdom, uses NetSuite from Oracle to support record to report for controllers and shared services.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for financial close |
| Capability | Record to report stays visible to adjacent teams through NetSuite |
| Capability | Controllers and shared services work from the same NetSuite record for financial close |
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Inside Associated British Foods, record to report used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer staples groups working out of the United Kingdom. Controllers and shared services needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Associated British Foods uses NetSuite from Oracle as the working layer for financial close. Oracle delivers enterprise applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure, including Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The practical change is simple: record to report has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Associated British Foods gets from Oracle is a durable place to run record to report and a way for controllers and shared services to see the same financial close at the same time.
