Sobel Corporation is now a part of food industry giant, Vion. When the company acquired arcplan, Sobel Corporation was a privately held Dutch Company with internationally active subsidiaries including Rendac, Smits Vuren, Harimex, Rousselot and Banner Pharmacaps. The group‘s core activities included the processing of slaughterhouse waste, the production of gelatin, and the development and production of capsulated pharmaceutical products and food additives.  With operations in many countries and 4,700+ employees, getting a total view of the company was difficult. Sobel adopted arcplan solution so that they share data housed in Hyperion and other data sources to decision-makers in the company without giving them direct access to the applications.  With arcplan, the companycould maintain their performance reporting information in a centralized, web-based environment and make sure that its employees could access it no matter where they are located.

Benefits: arcplan’s Performance Management Solutions Enable Success

The arcplan solution has enabled the company to continually monitor the success of their growth strategy and make the necessary changes in the organizational structure. Sobel's controllers and analysts can now scrutinize markets of interest while maintaining an overview of the performance of individual product divisions and the company as a whole. Additionally:

• Employees at the manufacturing facilities no longer had to enter numbers manually, with arcplan integrating that step into the process.
• Sobel was able to link applications based on Hyperion Financial Management to applications on the level of the subsidiaries based on Hyperion Essbase, ODBC databases and SAP systems.
• Gave users who did not belong to the corporate finance division a simple, yet comprehensive view of company data.

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