OUTCOME REPORTING SIMPLIFIED, PAPERWORK SLASHED
A key Greentree benefit for A.S. Wilcox is its ease of integration with Excel, where all the financial reporting is managed. A.S. Wilcox’s varying business cycles bear no relation to the standard financial year. Excel enables the company to create its own business cycles, and moving the data from Greentree into Excel is a quick and simple task.
“Being able to change the variables easily and then extract that data has been very valuable,” says Bruce. “Greentree’s flexibility has delivered significant gains for us. For example, if we decide to re-classify something by changing its tree, Greentree also moves all the historical information, so we can look at the impacts of changing that classification.
“Errors in data entry are greatly reduced, and having everything linked with all the draw-down capabilities within the one system is also a major benefit.”
The addition of eDocs has delivered even greater efficiency, with AP paperwork virtually eliminated.
“The driver for the change was to get rid of paper and have an electronic approval system so we can enforce our approval hierarchy,” Bruce says. “Time-wise, getting rid of the paper has been a massive achievement. We were just chasing paper all over the show and you couldn’t enter an invoice unless you had the coding. Now we have a register of invoices, which makes them a lot easier to track.”
A.S. Wilcox also adopted Greentree’s Workflow desktops, enabling easier tracking of sales orders. Some special tweaking by Verde enabled that all-important batch tracking, and the two companies have had a fruitful long-term relationship.
“We’ve always found Verde very approachable,” Bruce says. “They always have the time and capacity to listen to our needs. They were very good when we were moving our grower payment system across to Greentree and helping to set up eDocs.”
“We have been working with A.S. Wilcox for over a decade,” says Penny Boland, Verde’s CEO. “In that time they have grown substantially and for Verde it is important to work closely with our customers to help them future-proof their business. We continue working with Wilcox and are committed to ensuring that they are optimised for future growth.
“Their story is a true testament to the scalability of Greentree.”
“I’ve come from a background of systems like Oracle and SAP, and when I came to Wilcox and saw Greentree, what really appealed to me was its relative simplicity,” Bruce concludes. “It made reporting and getting information via Excel easy and the cost difference from those other ERP systems is massive.
“Greentree delivers the sort of efficiency that any business today wants in an ERP system, at a cost-effective price.”
