How Leading Finance Teams Are Reducing Planning Cycles From Days to Seconds

In today’s fast-moving business environment, finance leaders are under intense pressure to deliver faster forecasts, support better decisions, and enable truly data-driven collaboration. Traditional spreadsheet-based planning simply can’t keep up: it’s slow, error-prone, and leaves teams stuck in manual cycles that take days to complete. Modern finance teams need real-time insights, consistent data, and the ability to run scenarios in seconds if they want to stay ahead of market shifts and internal demands.

In this exclusive customer-led webinar, Nico Botes and Sunelle Botha from Montego Pet Nutrition join Eric Reyhle from Acterys and Kevin Appleby from GrowCFO to share how they transformed rebate planning and commercial decision-making. You’ll hear how Montego moved from spreadsheet chaos to a single version of the truth using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Acterys Planning Intelligence—reducing planning cycles from days to seconds and laying the foundations for AI-ready forecasting.

Highlights:

How Nico Botes and Sunelle Botha led Montego Pet Nutrition’s journey from spreadsheet chaos to modern Planning Intelligence
Real-time scenario modelling for Sales and Finance
How Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Acterys are working together with enterprise-grade write-back
Practical deployment and user adoption lessons
The measurable business impact of reducing planning cycles from days to seconds across finance and commercial teams
How Montego is building AI-ready foundations for predictive planning and forecasting

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