Case studies

Live deployments across seven industries and four business functions.

Every case below is a real client engagement. Most are still running. The work didn't end with a slide deck.

Navigator

Forecasting and scenarios

Forecasting and scenariosPaper and pulpPlanning

Navigator

Navigator is a leading global producer of paper, pulp, and tissue, with operations across multiple sites and business units in Iberia. Annual revenue around €2 billion.

Challenge

The planning team relied on Excel-based rolling forecasts, with assumptions scattered across spreadsheets and analysts spending most of their time reconciling numbers rather than advising the business. Forecasting cycles were long. Variance explanations took days. Scenario analysis was ad-hoc and rarely revisited after the initial run.

Approach

Replaced the spreadsheet workflow with a centralized planning environment running on Advisor. Started in FP&A: P&L reporting, scenario analysis, driver-tree decomposition. Assumptions became shared and auditable across the organization. Forecasting integrated with reporting and analytics in a single platform.

Impact

Performance reviews shifted from accounting reconciliation to decision-making. Forecasting cycle compressed materially. All assumptions now auditable. Seamless collaboration across business units. The deployment expanded from FP&A into procurement, production planning, and marketing analytics.

Four modules live. One team. One source of truth.

“Since our early interactions, the Human team understood our business and our data challenges.”

Daniel A., Director of Supply Chain, Navigator

Cost optimizationPharma (CDMO)Procurement

Axplora

Axplora is a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization in pharma, formed through merger of multiple regional manufacturers. Operations span three continents. Customer base includes most of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

Challenge

Post-merger, Axplora’s procurement function inherited 28,000 vendors spread across nine ERP instances with no consolidated spend view. Category managers operated in regional silos. Identifying savings opportunities required weeks of data reconciliation before any analysis could begin. Strategic supplier negotiations happened with partial information.

Approach

Advisor unified spend data from all nine ERP instances into a single source of truth. Materials were re-categorized with a consistent taxonomy across regions. Conversational analytics gave category managers and leadership immediate visibility into spend, supplier concentration, and savings opportunities. Category teams shifted from data preparation to strategic sourcing.

Impact

Company-wide visibility into spend for the first time post-merger. Category managers across three continents now operate as a single integrated team. Data trust, speed, and accuracy enabling fact-based decision making.

28,000 vendors. Nine ERPs. Three continents. One source of truth.

“Human gave me a clear company-wide view of spend, and brought together my Category Managers working as an integrated team.”

Rui C., CPO, Axplora

Axplora

Cost optimization

NOS

Variance explanations and cost optimization

Variance explanations and cost optimizationTelecomProcurement

NOS

NOS is one of Portugal’s largest telecommunications and entertainment groups, with extensive consumer and enterprise offerings. Procurement BI handles contract analytics, supplier performance, and category-level spend intelligence.

Challenge

Procurement analysts at NOS were answering high-stakes business questions through manual processes — pulling data from multiple systems, reconciling supplier records, building one-off analyses for each new request. Time-to-answer for non-standard questions was measured in days. The team wanted analytical depth without the analytical bottleneck.

Approach

Started as a focused proof of concept on contract analytics. Advisor delivered measurable results within weeks: contract status visibility, mid-contract renegotiation triggers, renovations ahead of expiration, faster offer innovation. The PoC expanded into a full procurement analytics platform.

Impact

Toughest business questions answered with a couple clicks. Analyst team focused on judgment and exceptions rather than data assembly. Proactive procurement: contracts renegotiated before expiration, supplier risks flagged early.

PoC to platform expansion. Weeks to first results. Days-to-minutes on non-standard questions.

“Within a few weeks, my analysts were able to answer some of the toughest business questions with a couple clicks.”

Catarina M., Head of Procurement BI, NOS

Cost optimizationInfrastructure (airports)Transformation

ANA Aeroportos

ANA Aeroportos de Portugal operates Portugal’s airport network, including Lisbon, Porto, Faro, and the Azores. Multi-billion-euro infrastructure operator with complex spend across construction, operations, technology, and concessions.

Challenge

ANA’s transformation team faced a cultural barrier: decisions were made on gut feeling because data wasn’t trusted or accessible. Spend transparency was limited. Initiatives stalled because the data foundation needed to support them was too slow to assemble. The transformation mandate required a way to surface hard data fast enough to keep momentum.

Approach

Democratized access to spend data and analytics. Conversational queries replaced report requests. Benchmarks and deviation tracking surfaced opportunities the team didn’t know existed. Forecasting integrated into the same environment so decisions could be modeled before commitment.

Impact

Data trust ceased to be a reason for inaction. Newer team members were empowered by fact-based decision-making rather than constrained by access barriers. Spend transparency unlocked initiatives that had been stalled. Transformation work accelerated.

Spend transparency. Cultural change. Data access democratized across the team.

ANA Aeroportos

Cost optimization

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Automated financial reporting in complex business environment

Forecasting and scenariosEnergyPlanning

Energy distributor under post-merger integration with rising reporting burden and a stretched finance team. Advisor automated reports from accounting data, with flexible templates, variance bridges, and what-if scenarios integrated into reporting. ExCom now focused on strategy. A single analyst calibrates all reports in one day.

Supplier contract visibility at scale

Cost optimizationTelecomProcurement

Large telco facing shorter time-to-market, growing supplier bargaining power, and complex contracts. Advisor consolidated supplier contract and spend data, with advanced metrics like maverick spend and price leakage. Mid-contract renegotiation triggers, renovations ahead of expiration, faster offer innovation.

What-if analysis for operational planning

Forecasting and scenariosIndustrialsStrategy

Multisite industrial with high execution discipline, looking to understand the financial impact of pricing and production planning options. Advisor built rule-based forecasting with templates modeling cost and price details, and flexible scenarios handling interdependent assumptions. Lower COGS, higher price realization through scenario-driven decisions.

Spend analytics for cultural change

Cost optimizationInfrastructureTransformation

Airport operator pushing transformation against gut-feeling decision culture and limited data trust. Advisor democratized spend analytics: conversational queries, benchmarks, deviation tracking, forecasting. Data trust no longer a reason for inaction; new team members empowered by fact-based decisions.

Device sourcing to reduce working capital

Cost optimizationTelecomTransformation

Procurement and inventory management of large telco unable to keep up with shorter equipment lifetimes and faster offer innovation. Advisor handled material re-categorization with a refined taxonomy, fixed category mistakes, merged redundancies. Reduced working capital through lower inventory losses; informed supplier negotiations.

Strategic initiative prioritization

Cost optimizationPharmaTransformation

Transformation team aiming to expand the portfolio of initiatives beyond direct cost opportunities. Advisor automated idea generation, value proofs, prioritization, and scheduling, with rigorous tracking of impact. Doubled number of ongoing initiatives. Savings targets exceeded.

Cost synergy realization in post-merger integration

Cost optimizationPharmaStrategy

Post-merger integration of large industrial with 10+ operational sites, mandated to capture cost synergies. Advisor's expert system suggested quantified savings from best practices and spend patterns, with a prioritization framework based on impact and difficulty. Beat savings targets. Transparent value proofs replaced gut-feeling business cases.

Should-cost analysis for vendor negotiations

Cost optimizationIndustrialsTransformation

Large industrial with reactive procurement in a tight material sourcing market with price volatility and increased competition. Advisor delivered price gap alerts and should-cost analytics, modeled bill-of-materials, tracked market movements of price drivers. Increased bargaining power with suppliers. Captured value of cost volatility through better contract timing.

Generative analytics for variance tracking

Variance explanationsRetailPlanning

Large retail operation with incipient cost analytics unable to deal with aggressive cost-to-serve reduction targets across diverse store formats. Advisor delivered generative analytics: conversational interaction, variance tracking, automated explanations. Faster analytical cycle. Analyst team focused on exceptions and corrective actions.

Scenarios-based budgeting for energy retailer

Forecasting and scenariosEnergyPlanning

Energy retailer with legacy budgeting process, manual analytics, and limited forecasting unable to keep up with customer churn and price volatility. Advisor delivered rule-based forecasting with flexible scenarios, modeling customer base details. Scenario-driven budgeting with frequent price experiments. Captured value of consumer surplus through additional segmentation and faster price changes.

Strategic procurement optimization for retail

Cost optimizationRetailProcurement

Large retail chain under cost pressure with limited analytical capabilities, missing cost opportunities in tail spend and type-B vendors. Advisor automated quantification of savings initiatives with full data transparency, fine-tuning of assumptions, exploratory analysis linked to value proofs. Identified new quick-wins in unaddressed categories. Rolling plan with specific actions for indirect spend savings.

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