Manufacturing
Financial Consolidation for a Multi-Site Manufacturer
Client
Alderton Precision Engineering
Summary
Replaced three disconnected legacy systems with a single Business Central platform, cutting month-end close from nine days to three.
The Challenge
Alderton Precision Engineering was running finance, inventory, and production scheduling across three systems that didn't talk to each other. Month-end close took nine working days, and stock counts rarely matched what was actually on the shop floor.
Every discrepancy meant someone reconciling two systems by hand, and the finance team kept a parallel spreadsheet just to have numbers they trusted.
The Solution
Truscope implemented Business Central using a phased Success by Design rollout, starting with finance and inventory before connecting production scheduling. Legacy data was migrated in stages so the shop floor never stopped running.
Custom approval workflows replaced the manual sign-off chain that had grown up around the old systems, without forcing Alderton's team to change how they actually worked.
“Truscope didn't just migrate our old system into a new one — they worked out why our numbers never matched in the first place, and fixed that.”
The Results
Month-end close dropped from nine days to three. Stock discrepancies fell by over 70%, and the finance team retired the parallel spreadsheet entirely.
