From Excel Chaos to Financial Confidence: Tarkett Sports’ FP&A Transformation with Vena and Delbridge
Tarkett Sports’ Challanges Before Vena
Tarkett Sports is a global leader in sports flooring solutions, providing innovative surfaces for athletic facilities worldwide. With a commitment to excellence and quality, Tarkett supports athletes and organizations by delivering high-performance, durable flooring products tailored to diverse sporting environments.
Manual, Spreadsheet-Based Budgeting
Budgeting relied heavily on Excel, requiring the finance team to create and manage dozens of separate files for each cost center, manually distributed via email, resulting in administrative overhead and lost productivity.
Version Control Chaos
Excel-based budgeting caused continuous and frustrating versioning issues, frequently leading to confusion, inaccuracies, increased workload, and unnecessary stress for the finance department.
Cumbersome Data Consolidation
Completed files were manually saved to shared drives and painstakingly consolidated into a global Profit & Loss statement—a process that was error-prone, stressful, and highly inefficient.
“We were very Excel-based. Budgeting involved dozens of separate files distributed through email, then manually rolled up into a consolidated P&L. This created a versioning nightmare and put undue stress on our finance department.”
Jon Beelen, Global Director FP&A
Delbridge’s Approach
Tarkett Sports sought a tailored and comprehensive approach to fully support their global budgeting processes. Leveraging an existing trusted relationship, Tarkett engaged Delbridge Solutions, known to their FP&A leadership from previous successful projects.
Delbridge implemented Vena to align seamlessly with Tarkett’s global budgeting requirements. We introduced automated workflows to streamline the budgeting process, significantly reducing manual effort and enhancing data accuracy.
Additionally, Delbridge extended the solution to include advanced reporting features—such as bridging actual results with forecasts and consolidating commentary. This comprehensive implementation provided Tarkett Sports with a robust and customized financial planning solution designed to meet their global operational needs.
Automated Workflows
Advanced Reporting
“Delbridge implemented Vena in a way that worked perfectly with our system. We layered on workflows and expanded the scope to include bridging results and commentary consolidation. We now have a single source of truth that streamlines our global budgeting process.”
Jon Beelen, Global Director FP&A
Results
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- Data integration and security setup
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- Align Vena to your operating model
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- Data migrations and governance support
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- Change management support
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- Long-term roadmap and feature adoption
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