Case studies

Engagements measured by what changed in the business

Client names are withheld under confidentiality. Scope, constraints and outcomes are described as delivered.

Manufacturing

300-user global manufacturer: twelve years of ERP history migrated without a lost close

Month-end close, from 2 weeks: 2 days
Users transitioned: 300
Legal entities consolidated: 7

Challenge

A multi-company manufacturer operating across three continents ran twelve years of Dynamics GP history across seven legal entities. Consolidation took two weeks each month and the finance team had no confidence in intercompany balances.

Approach

We built a phased migration plan sequenced by legal entity rather than by module, preserved the historical general ledger in a queryable archive, and rebuilt the intercompany and consolidation model in Business Central before any user training began.

Outcome

Monthly close reduced from two weeks to two days. All seven entities operate on a single chart of accounts with automated intercompany elimination. No month-end was missed during the migration.

Healthcare

Regional healthcare network: audit-ready finance under HIPAA constraints

Audit findings on finance systems: 0
From kickoff to audit readiness: 6 mo
Reduction in manual AP handling: 70%

Challenge

A healthcare provider needed to modernize an ageing finance system while satisfying HIPAA controls and an external audit scheduled six months out.

Approach

Controls were designed first: segregation of duties, restricted data flows, and documented approval chains. Implementation followed the control model rather than the reverse.

Outcome

The audit closed with no finance system findings. Manual approval routing was eliminated across accounts payable.

Retail

Multi-country retail rollout across four tax jurisdictions

Countries live in one year: 4
Rollout cadence per market: 8 weeks
Shared global template: 1

Challenge

A retail group expanding into four countries had localized processes in each market and no common reporting language.

Approach

A core template was defined centrally, with localization treated as a controlled exception rather than a per-country rebuild. Country rollouts ran on a repeating eight-week cadence.

Outcome

Four markets live within a single financial year on one template. Group reporting available on day three of each month.

Construction

Contractor gains real job-cost visibility mid-programme

Job margin visibility: Weekly
Committed cost captured at source: 100%
Contracts renegotiated in Q1: 2

Challenge

A construction firm could not see project margin until a job closed, which meant loss-making contracts were discovered months late.

Approach

Project accounting was restructured around committed cost, WIP recognition and retention handling, with cost capture pushed to the point of transaction.

Outcome

Project margin is now visible weekly. Two loss-making contracts were identified and renegotiated in the first quarter after go-live.

Logistics

Zero-downtime cutover for a 24/7 logistics operation

Minutes of operational downtime: 0
Full cutover rehearsals: 3
Operation maintained throughout: 24/7

Challenge

A logistics provider operating continuously could not accept a maintenance window for its ERP cutover.

Approach

A parallel-run cutover was designed with staged data synchronization, a rehearsed rollback position, and dock-level contingency procedures.

Outcome

Cutover completed with no interruption to receiving, dispatch or customer commitments.

Automotive

Automotive supplier: MES and ERP reconciled to a single cost truth

Cost reconciliation cycle: Daily
Source of truth for production cost: 1
Unexplained cost variance: <1%

Challenge

Shop-floor MES data and ERP costing disagreed, and neither finance nor operations trusted the resulting margin figures.

Approach

Integration was rebuilt around a defined transaction contract, with reconciliation exceptions surfaced daily rather than discovered at period end.

Outcome

Standard-to-actual cost variance became explainable within a day. Operations and finance now work from the same production figures.

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