Potato

Food & Beverage

Pata is a well-established potato chip and savoury snack company that combines quality and innovation, standing out for its dynamism and ability to constantly reinvent itself.


Pata Spa is one of the leading industrial companies in the sector, specializing in the production of chips and savory snacks. It stands out in the market for its dynamism and ability to launch and produce innovative products, offered to consumers through various distribution channels.
Project objectives
Ensure effective business monitoring, aimed at developing product costs in a full costing logic, essential for managing the growing incidence of direct and operating costs

This vision is geared toward monitoring and managing sales results and profitability, enabling timely and informed understanding of business performance. At the same time, it aims to rapidly obtain information from various corporate information flows, improving the efficiency and reliability of the decision-making process. Finally, it fosters user engagement and growth through targeted information sessions, promoting greater knowledge sharing and a shared data culture.

Reasons for the choice
Pata Spa chooses the Suite E3 for the following factors:
Consolidated experience and diffusion in the industrial sector
The availability of pre-configured industrial computing applications and models and allocations
Parametric Data Warehouse technology that allows easy integration of information sources and dynamic characterization of rules
Ease of use, allowing for a wide range of autonomy on the part of users
Benefits obtained
Through the E3 Suite, a modern Management Control System was activated in a short time

The project significantly reduced manual work in compiling the company's income statement, along with product costs, and monitored the costs and performance of various production phases, both standard and actual. In a subsequent phase, unit product costs were taken into account to evaluate the cost of goods sold within the scope of sales profitability. The budget and forecast process was activated, which, starting from the sales area, encompasses and integrates the development of the production budget and income statement areas.

Problems encountered
We have managed the following specificities:
– measurement of real consumption of raw materials
– packaging and labor times
– end-of-year bonuses and Net Commissions
Areas of governance and control activated on:
– Actual/standard Product Cost (full cost per plant, department, product)
– Profitability per customer and product (at full costing)
– Management income statement and ratios
Customer Testimonial
E3: Simple, flexible and integrated data management

“The E3 suite is easy to use, flexible in data characterization, aggregation, and presentation, and manageable directly by users. E3 also allows you to integrate any information source, automatically reconcile and certify data from various data streams, and parametrically adapt the rules for reclassifying various income statements and reallocating costs and revenues.”

Francesco Banditelli
Controller and Project Leader

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