How Alicorp transformed commodity risk management with B-PIPE

Alicorp

Alicorp is a leading Peruvian consumer goods company with a presence spanning seven countries in Latin America, including Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Honduras, and exports to more than 25 countries, including the United States.

In 2025, Alicorp generated $3.23 billion in net sales through its more than 150 brands across consumer goods such as food, home care and personal care, as well as B2B products for the gastronomy, baking, cleaning and industrial clients sectors.

FEATURED PRODUCTS

INDUSTRY

Consumer Goods

REGION

Latin America

LOCATION

Callao, Peru

GOAL

Gaining accurate, real-time visibility into commodities’ positions as quickly as possible and without pricing delays.

B-PIPE enables fast portfolio updates, reliable pricing and enterprise-wide consistency (including SAP integration), addressing latency and data reliability challenges.

Integrating B-PIPE into Alicorp’s internal system has significantly improved productivity and efficiency, reducing the time required to produce risk reports from four or five hours to just 20 – 30 minutes.

Different departments at Alicorp can monitor commodity position changes in real time, increasing transparency and enabling faster decision-making in a dynamic environment.

“B-PIPE gives us access to the highway, allowing our system to use real-time prices and truly operate at full speed.”

Helder Centeno
Financial Risk Lead, Alicorp

Situation

As a consumer goods company, Alicorp relies heavily on soft commodities including soybean oil, soybean meal, wheat, palm oil and sugar, but lacked the technological tools to use real-time commodity price data to improve procurement decisions and accurately value its positions, contracts and risk exposure.

Need to generate reliable daily reports that would allow for the timely assessment of positions and risk limits.

Seeking solutions that can provide the company with the value of its positions, the number of contracts held by the procurement team and other key indicators for decision-making within established risk limits.

Challenge

Alicorp’s Financial Risk Department relied on a large, spreadsheet-driven process to track commodity prices and portfolio performance.

Time-consuming workflow for loading positions, updating broker contracts and prices, setting financial limits, and distributing the report.

Errors in the report could further delay access to information.

Solution

Bloomberg’s consolidated market data feed, B-PIPE provides access to comprehensive streaming market data with high levels of agility, reliability and accuracy. This enables Alicorp to process derivatives and the physical pricing component for procurement and hedging decisions within a single day.

B-PIPE enabled fast portfolio updates, reliable pricing and enterprise-wide consistency (including SAP integration), addressing latency and data reliability challenges.

Integrating B-PIPE into Alicorp’s internal system has significantly improved productivity and efficiency, reducing the time required to produce risk reports from four or five hours to just 20 – 30 minutes.

The Risk department uses Bloomberg’s Data License to access a wide range of data points to streamline operations and uncover new insights.

“Receiving a static PDF or spreadsheet is one thing; interacting with a dynamic platform is another. With B-PIPE feeding the data, no one questions whether the information is up to date. They know that what they see reflects their real positions, real prices and the true value at risk of their portfolio.”

Helder Centeno
Financial Risk Lead, Alicorp

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