Melrose

About Melrose PLC

Melrose buys good manufacturing businesses with strong fundamentals whose performance can be improved. Melrose finances its acquisitions using a low level of leverage, improves the businesses by a mixture of investment and changed management focus, sells them and returns the proceeds to shareholders. Please visit www.melroseplc.net to learn more.

The Challenge

Melrose requirements revolved around complete replacement of Hyperion Enterprise, HFM and FDM for management, statutory reporting – weekly, monthly treasury cash flow forecasting. Key requirements included an agile solution that offered true flexibility when acquiring and divesting businesses quickly while retaining historical data.

The Business Problem

Melrose needed a unified CPM solution that not only reduced the burden of maintaining multiple products and integrations with the agility needed to adapt to the but also allowed for complete visibility into data, meta data and process changes. Previous reporting solution did not provide complete visibility into a reliable weekly cash flow forecasting and reporting.

The OneStream™ Solution

Melrose implemented OneStream for management, statutory reporting and weekly treasury cash flow forecasting. By implementing OneStream Melrose was able to utilize a single platform that complied with their statutory reporting requirements, improve analysis, audit controls, and provide and overall visibility into changes. Additionally, by pushing process to the businesses OneStream made the close process faster and easier.

Financial Consolidation and Reporting Results

Owned by the office of Finance, OneStream delivers powerful management and ad hoc reporting for management and business users. OneStream meets and exceeds all advanced financial consolidation and reporting requirements in a single and agile solution that is easy to use, own and maintain.

"OneStream's Unified Financial Intelligence and Extensible Model Melrose to deliver maximum value to corporate reporting along with operational value to each diverse business unit. OneStream's Guided Workflows and powerful consolidation and reporting engine offer a turn-key solution to business users and a lower TCO for group reporting."

— Jason Care | Group Systems Manager, Melrose PLC

Weekly Cash Forecasting

Melrose requires a weekly cash forecasting collection to understand the impact on cash flow to the business week by week. OneStream offered a streamlined Guided Workflow process familiar to the business users to collect these cash changes in order to understand the impact to group reporting.

All Solutions Live in a Single Rational System to Own and Maintain

There is no substitute for the value of having one system that can share and extend dimensions to deliver multiple solutions without the technical complexity of having to install, implement, maintain, learn and upgrade multiple products or modules in a suite approach.

About OneStream™ Software

OneStream Software provides a market-leading intelligent finance platform that reduces the complexity of financial operations. OneStream unleashes the power of finance by unifying corporate performance management (CPM) processes such as planning, financial close & consolidation, reporting and analytics through a single, extensible solution. We empower the enterprise with financial and operational insights to support faster and more informed decision-making. All in a cloud platform designed to continually evolve and scale with your organization.

OneStream's Intelligent Finance platform can easily be extended with over 50 solutions from the OneStream MarketPlace™. These downloadable solutions are fully battle-tested and optimized for the OneStream platform. They allow customers to easily extend the value of their investment to meet the changing needs of finance and operations.

For more information, please visit OneStream Software https://onestream.com or on Twitter @OneStream_Soft.

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