TekLink (HGS)

HGS’ Planning Practice helps organizations move from fragmented, manual planning processes to connected, insight-driven enterprise planning and performance management. With more than 20 years of focus in enterprise planning, HGS brings deep domain knowledge across budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A), enabling finance and business leaders to make confident, data-driven decisions.

HGS is recognized in the Gartner Voice of the Customer for Data & Analytics Services, reflecting strong client satisfaction and proven outcomes. The practice is also ranked among the Top 50 Data & Analytics service providers, underscoring HGS’ scale, consistency, and depth in analytics-led planning and performance management.

Across industries such as consumer packaged goods (CPG), food & beverage (F&B), and manufacturing, HGS has partnered with organizations for decades to address complex, cross-functional planning challenges. In FP&A, clients leverage connected planning to improve forecast accuracy, enable driver-based and rolling forecasts, and align financial plans with operational realities. In supply chain planning, organizations gain improved visibility into demand, inventory, and capacity, allowing for faster scenario analysis and more resilient decision-making in volatile market conditions.

To help clients unlock business value quickly and with minimal risk, HGS offers a 90-day, no-risk Proof of Value (PoV) engagement. Through this structured approach, HGS works with organizations to explore a set of clearly defined, mutually agreed-upon planning use cases, rapidly demonstrating value through targeted scenarios, insights, and outcomes. At the end of the 90 days, clients leverage the results of the PoV to inform their broader planning strategy, operating model, and technology roadmap—ensuring future investments are grounded in proven impact and aligned to business priorities.