This case study shows how GO Healthy improved financial consolidation, revenue forecasting, and reporting using Workday Adaptive Planning, implemented by GK Horizons. It demonstrates how a modern planning solution supports faster decision-making and scalable business growth.
Case Study Snapshot
| Organisation | GO Healthy |
| Sector | Health Supplements / Consumer Goods |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Planning Platform | Workday Adaptive Planning |
| GK Horizons Role | Planning Design, Implementation, Enablement & Support |
| Decision Context | Rapid business growth required faster consolidation, reliable forecasting, and scalable planning capability |
| Planning Focus | Budgeting, Forecasting, Consolidation, Revenue Modelling |
| Key Outcomes | Real-time consolidation, faster reporting, clearer revenue forecasting, stronger finance partnership |
About GO Healthy
GO Healthy is a New Zealand-based health supplement brand founded in 2008 and the number one selling supplement brand in pharmacies across New Zealand. Its products are manufactured and sold through pharmacies and health food stores in New Zealand and are also available in Australia and Singapore.
We all want to be healthy, to be happy, feel good and to live longer. To live the life we dream of.
We know that looking after ourselves, a good diet and exercise are important, but life is busy. We don’t always do and haven’t always done what we know we should. And we all know that modern medicine doesn’t hold all the answers.
As New Zealand’s number one pharmacy vitamin brand, GO Healthy is passionate about helping everyone operate at their peak and is equally ambitious about its own performance.
As the business expanded, the organisation needed a planning environment that could support growth while providing finance with a reliable and scalable view of performance.
Why Choose Workday Adaptive Planning
As GO Healthy continued to grow, its manual planning and reporting processes struggled to keep pace with increasing operational complexity.
Finance required a planning environment capable of delivering faster consolidation, more reliable forecasting, and clearer commercial insight.
Key challenges included:
- Slow and error-prone consolidation – Consolidation was managed in Excel with information pulled from three separate ERPs, slowing down budgeting and reporting and creating risk of error.
- Limited insight – Data was isolated in different spreadsheets, making it difficult to compare budget to actuals and extract insights to support growth.
- Unreliable forecasts – Forecasts were based on product units for manufacturing planning, but with 600 SKUs and six major distribution channels it was difficult to translate units into revenue.
- Lack of agility – Manual processes limited finance’s ability to respond to business needs and accommodate new requests.
GO Healthy selected Workday Adaptive Planning to establish a scalable planning foundation and support more informed commercial decision-making.
Why Work with GK Horizons
Why Work with GK Horizons
GO Healthy partnered with GK Horizons to design and implement its planning environment using Workday Adaptive Planning.
GK Horizons brings over a decade of experience helping finance leaders across not-for-profit, government, and commercial sectors design and configure planning environments that prioritise decision quality, time-to-insight, and long-term value.
The Adaptive Insights (Workday Adaptive Planning) Business Planning Cloud was implemented in just six weeks, replacing error-prone spreadsheets and enabling real-time group consolidation.
“The cloud-based planning solution replaced error-prone spreadsheets and streamlined activities like group consolidation that can now be done in real time rather than the three days it took previously. The implementation by GK Horizons was also super-fast, astonishingly easy and even came in under budget which is hardly heard of in IT projects. Both the training and ongoing support they provide is also really good; I’m now a super user and can do things like basic modelling myself and reach out to them when I need help with something more difficult.”
Eva Kaminski, Group CFO | GO Healthy
How Go Healthy Uses Workday Adaptive Planning to Support Planning Decisions
Workday Adaptive Planning now supports GO Healthy’s core planning and reporting processes, providing finance with a single, trusted view of performance.
Real-Time Consolidation
Consolidation is now instant and more accurate without the risk of errors related to data entry and complex spreadsheet formulas.
Best Practice Reporting
Finance has saved three days per month on reporting while delivering more reliable and detailed information to inform decision-making.
Revenue Forecasting and Version Comparison
Forecasts are completed monthly and incorporate sales and operational indicators, including revenue. Version comparison enables finance to measure forecast accuracy and continuously refine planning models.
Responsive Finance Function
With manual processes reduced, finance can respond more quickly to business requests and support operational and strategic decisions.
What Go Healthy Has Gained
The shift to Workday Adaptive Planning has strengthened GO Healthy’s ability to plan with confidence as the business continues to grow.
Finance can now compare budgets to actuals more easily, forecast revenue more accurately, and provide clearer insight to support decision-making across the organisation.
CFO Perspective: Decision Impact
The shift to Workday Adaptive Planning has significantly improved consolidation speed, reporting efficiency, and decision support capability. With faster access to reliable information, finance now plays a more strategic role in guiding commercial decisions and supporting the organisation’s continued growth.
Where to Next
GO Healthy’s planning capability continues to evolve as the organisation builds on its planning foundation.
With improved visibility, faster reporting, and stronger forecasting capability, the business is better positioned to support ongoing growth and respond to changing market conditions.
