Implementation of the planning and forecasting tool APOLLO at Notino

Case Study

Back in 2021, Notino was still making financial plans in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Financial planning included budgeting, forecasting and control of execution. As Notino grew, the preparation of one plan gradually swelled to 130 different Excel files. The number of files continued to grow with plan variations.

PwC’s approach

Why did Notino decide to abandon excel spreadsheets and start addressing financial planning in an advanced tool?

Granularity of the plan. The need for greater granularity of data, which Microsoft Excel does not allow.
Plan variants. As the number of Excel spreadsheets increases, working with plan variants becomes impossible.
Plan data integrity. As the number of Excel spreadsheets increases, it becomes impossible to maintain data consistency, for instance, to make the reconciled plan fit into departmental plans.

Project deliverables

Although Notino programmes many of the applications itself, it opted for an external planning tool. This allows Notino’s internal development capabilities to continue to prioritise work on business-critical applications, giving Notino a competitive advantage on the market. With the external scheduling application, Notino also gained the best practices of an advanced scheduling tool.

PwC Czech Republic helped to select and implement the tool. The selection started with a concept study that addressed Notino’s requirements for a planning tool. This was followed by a comparison of the three recommended tools and a reference visit. Notino chose APOLLO by ADEOS s.r.o. from the three recommended tools.