From a Five-Day Close to Two, Three Modules Live in 90 Days
A NYSE-listed energy storage manufacturer ran its close on the same manual pattern most manufacturers do until Book Close & Consolidation and Payables Automation went live together, on the same roadmap.
The Setup
Month-end close ran five days, leaning on manual variance analysis, manual MIS (management information system the internal reports leadership reviews monthly) preparation, and an accounts-payable process where roughly half of invoices still needed a human touch. None of it was unusual for a manufacturer of this size. What made the gap visible was reporting to public-market investors on a calendar that doesn't wait for a spreadsheet to be rebuilt.
The Approach
Most transformation programs sequence book close and AP as separate projects, months apart. Here, both ran on one roadmap: Book Close & Consolidation went live first to stabilize the close, and Payables Automation followed within roughly eight weeks because the same underlying data connections served both. By the 90-day mark, a third module was already live, not just scoped.