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General MillsGeneral Mills Adopts SAP for Record to Report
General Mills, a consumer staples organization in the United States, uses SAP Ariba from SAP 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 SAP Ariba |
| Capability | Controllers and shared services work from the same SAP Ariba record for financial close |
Story
Inside General Mills, 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 States. Controllers and shared services needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
General Mills uses SAP Ariba from SAP as the working layer for financial close. SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications. 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 General Mills gets from SAP 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.
