Century Pacific Food Advances Digital Transformation Program in Collaboration with JustPerform for Financial Solutions

We spoke with Irish Kristine Jacinto, Corporate Planning Senior Manager at Century Pacific Foods Inc., to learn how the company is navigating its rapid growth. Over the past decade, Century Pacific has tripled in size, achieving consistent year-over-year growth. As the business expands, the complexity of financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting continues to rise. To sustain this momentum and drive future success, Century Pacific has adopted JustPerform—a unified FP&A and financial consolidation platform. JustPerform’s powerful capabilities and intuitive interface are set to strengthen Century Pacific’s financial strategy, enabling more accurate planning, faster consolidation, and increased business agility. 

Over the past 10 years, Century Pacific has tripled its business size, posting consistent growth year over year. We expect this trajectory to continue as we move forward, which can create complexity in our operations. We need tools that will elevate our level of financial analysis from forecasting to monitoring and reporting of our business performance. As we aim to deliver on our goal, we are pleased to be working with JustPerform. As a unified FP&A and financial consolidation platform, it aligns seamlessly with our growing requirements.

I'm Chad Manapat, Chief Financial Officer of Century Pacific Food, Inc. I drive financial strategy to fuel profitable, sustainable growth across our business. Since its inception in 1978, Century Pacific has evolved to become one of the leading branded food companies in the Philippines. With the diverse portfolio of brands, we are home to household names and market leaders such as Century Tuna, 555, LIGO, Argentina, and Birch Tree.

Our previous FP&A platform proved instrumental in enabling our company to achieve our business goals. However, Century’s immense growth ambition also led to more complexity. As such, we needed to transform our finance planning processes and evolve our tools and systems to accommodate more complex scenarios and granular level of analysis. In order to support more complex planning requirements, we needed a platform that has unlimited storage capacity. This means we will be able to craft more robust financial models, explore varying degrees of granularity, and include larger data sets and critical growth metrics into our budgeting and forecasting processes.

One of the standout aspects of JustPerform is its ease of use for the builders. Its user-friendly interface enables a seamless experience in designing our planning and consolidation processes. We also like the speed of its calculation. The complex end-to-end calculations from volume input to bridge report are handled at a great speed. JustPerform Sheets offer great flexibility in budgeting and forecasting with a familiar and easy-to-use interface. Overall, it gives our business users full ownership of the platform, creating greater agility in planning and consolidation process.

JustPerform adds speed to our data integration and business consolidation processes. Additionally, it provides multiple users simultaneous visibility for faster flow of information and easy collaboration. Furthermore, we can also unlock efficiencies in reconciliation of related party transactions through JustPerform.

I'll borrow a line from Henry Ford. “If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got.” Century Pacific is embarking on a new phase of transformational growth. Having the right partners with us on this journey is essential to succeed. I'm glad that we chose JustPerform. It will drastically reduce our total cost of ownership, making us more prudent in our spending and internally invest these savings in key growth initiatives. With JustPerform, Century Pacific is well equipped to enhance efficiency, drive process innovation, and accelerate our growth journey. Want to see how it works? Download our EPM Buyer’s Guide to find a finance solution for your team.