CapEx360® Global Beverage Company Case Study
AB InBev & CapEx360®
Global CapEx Lifecycle Standardization Across a Multi-Billion Dollar Beverage Portfolio
Executive Summary
Canadian National Railway (CN), the only transcontinental railway network in North America and a critical transportation backbone moving approximately C$250 billion worth of goods annually, required a more scalable and structured approach to managing its capital expenditure request process.
With more than 700 CapEx requests submitted annually and investment activity continuing to grow across the network, CN’s existing process was under increasing operational pressure. The workflow relied on a combination of manual coordination and a legacy internally developed system built on Lotus Notes and integrated with SAP. Over time, the system became increasingly difficult to maintain and lacked the scalability, transparency, and governance capabilities required to support CN’s evolving capital management environment.
CN implemented CapEx360® to modernize and standardize its capital request and approval framework. The platform introduced a centralized system for managing capital requests, business case development, and approval workflows across the organization.
As a result, CN improved approval efficiency, strengthened visibility across capital investment decisions, and established a scalable capital governance framework capable of supporting continued growth in capital investment activity.
Challenge
The organization relied on an internally developed system that struggled to support complex workflows and financial modeling required for investment approvals. Workflow failures created delays, increased support costs, and limited reporting accuracy.
Key Pain Points
- Complex approval workflows difficult to maintain
- High internal support burden
- Delayed project approvals
- Inconsistent reporting accuracy
- Limited global visibility across capital programs
Solution
Anheuser-Busch InBev deployed CapEx360® as its unified capital management platform to standardize how investment initiatives are evaluated, approved, and monitored across global brewing, supply chain, and infrastructure programs.
The platform established a consistent framework for managing brewery expansions, production line investments, packaging initiatives, logistics infrastructure, and other strategic capital projects within a single lifecycle environment.
CapEx360® enabled AB InBev to replace fragmented internal tooling with structured workflows, embedded financial evaluation, and centralized project data, allowing regional teams to submit, review, and manage capital requests using a standardized operating model.
By introducing lifecycle governance across multi-year, multi-currency investments, the organization strengthened alignment between finance, operations, and engineering while improving visibility into portfolio priorities, capital allocation decisions, and execution progress across its global manufacturing footprint.
CapEx360® Features
- Configurable global approval workflows supporting complex exceptions
- Multi-year and multi-phase project lifecycle management
- Centralized investment request management across regions
- Embedded ROI and capital evaluation capabilities
- Full lifecycle traceability across all capital projects
Integration and Automation
- Integration with ERP and data warehouse environments
- Automated workflow routing and approval notifications
- Exception handling automation for complex project scenarios
- Centralized document and project data management
Financial Control & Visibility
- Global visibility across projects, budgets, and approvals
- Real-time reporting supporting portfolio oversight
- Standardized financial data across currencies and regions
- Prevention of unauthorized spending through structured governance
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Testimonials
AB InBev
"We needed to get all our CapEx budgets, projects, approvals and requests all in one place that would unify the global business and provide visibility to the business no matter the site, location, country or currency."
AB InBev
"The system is easy to use which allowed for easy adoption within our organization. Caprivi was able to implement a full CapEx solution that met our ever-demanding requirements."
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