An ERP gets signed by a finance director and lived in by a storekeeper. These are the four people whose Tuesday changes, and none of them have to like software for it to work.
GRN-91044 postedMain store · 12 seconds ago
The storekeeper
Writing delivery notes into a book for someone else to type up.
Receives against the order on a handset. The check-in is the posting.
The buyer
Ringing round to find out which orders actually arrived.
Committed, received and outstanding, per supplier, without asking anyone.
The financial controller
Rebuilding the month out of paper in the first week of the next one.
A close that assembled itself, reviewed and signed on the fourth.
The managing director
Asking what stock is worth and being told someone will find out.
One screen, current to the last posting, on a phone in a car park.
Period close
0
days to close, from three weeks
4 of 30 days
Invoicing
3-way
matching on every invoice, order and receipt
3 of 3 matched
Builds
0
industries with a build of their own
6 of 6 shipped
The close finishes on the fourth.
Not because anyone works faster, but because the postings happen as the work happens instead of being assembled from paper in the first week of the following month.
0working days, on a twelve-day month-end
01Day 01
Cut-off, all stores counted
Every location closes its own count. No store waits on another.
02Day 02
Goods received not invoiced matched
Receipts without invoices are found and accrued, not discovered in March.
03Day 03
Accruals and prepayments posted
Standing entries post themselves against the schedule they were set on.
04Day 04
Departmental P&Ls issued
Every head of department gets their own numbers the same morning.
Day 05Review, then nothing.·Days 06 to 12 stop being month-end at all.
010203040506070809101112
On this system4 days
Assembling it by hand12 days
Both runs are drawn on the same twelve days, so the gap between them is the thing you get back — eight working days a month, every month.
One board, whatever it cost.
Six cost centres from one operation, on one board, in one set of columns. Every figure on it is a consequence of a posting somebody made by doing their job, not of a report somebody wrote afterwards.
Cost of sales, by outletPeriod to date · Live
Outlet
Store
Status
Cost of sales
Next action
Banquet kitchen
Main store
On budget
28.4%
Nothing due
All-day dining
Kitchen 2
Over
36.1%
Variance raised
Sky bar
Beverage
Counting
—
Stocktake tonight
Pool deck
Kitchen 2
On budget
31.0%
Nothing due
In-room dining
Main store
Watch
33.8%
Recipe review
Engineering
Spares
Watch
RM 41k
Chiller service due
Every movement posted. Every cost known.
An ERP is not a database somebody has to feed at month-end. It is the ledger that writes itself while the goods are still being unloaded, so nothing depends on whether a busy person remembered to type it in.
Nobody keys a delivery note twice
Nobody reconciles two systems that should have agreed
Nobody waits for a stocktake to know what stock is worth
Cost of sales, by outletPeriod to date · Live
Outlet
Store
Status
Cost of sales
Next action
Banquet kitchen
Main store
On budget
28.4%
Nothing due
All-day dining
Kitchen 2
Over
36.1%
Variance raised
Sky bar
Beverage
Counting
—
Stocktake tonight
Pool deck
Kitchen 2
On budget
31.0%
Nothing due
In-room dining
Main store
Watch
33.8%
Recipe review
Engineering
Spares
Watch
RM 41k
Chiller service due
What arrives at your back door
Purchase orders
Delivery notes
Supplier invoices
Stock counts
Transfers
Five sources of truth, five people keying them somewhere, and five chances for the number you report to be wrong by the time anyone checks.
What you get back, continuously
Stock at cost, per store, without a stocktake
A landed cost that includes what it took to get here
An invoice held because it disagreed with the order
A close that runs to a schedule, not to a scramble
And one general ledgerPosted as it happens, by nobody
The invoice that quietly went up.
Nobody approves a five hundred ringgit overcharge on purpose. They approve it because the invoice looked like the delivery, and nobody had the order open at the same time.
Three-way matching holds the order, the receipt and the invoice against each other on every line. When they disagree the difference is raised before payment, not discovered at year end.
Held — unit price above orderPayment blocked, buyer notifiedRM 500.00
Tolerances are yours to set. Most clients pass anything within a ringgit and hold everything above it.
What is stock worth, right now?
Not a report someone runs on request. Stock at cost, what is committed, what has been received and not yet invoiced, and how far into the close you are — all of it a consequence of postings that already happened.
Group operationsLive
Stock at cost
RM 4.82m
+3.1%
Committed, not yet received
RM 1.36m
+RM 210k
Received, not invoiced
41 lines
−12
Days into close
4 of 12
on schedule
Stock at cost, by siteSix sites
RM 1.42m
RM 0.90m
RM 1.09m
RM 0.49m
RM 0.61m
RM 0.31m
KLPenangJBIpohKuchingKK
Spend this period
Goods for resale47%
Consumables23%
Services and contractors18%
Maintenance and spares12%
Needs a person
Invoice above order pricePayables6 held
Received, no invoice over 30 daysGRNI9 lines
Negative stockKuching store2 items
Cycle count overdueIpoh store1 store
Every director, controller and store manager sees the slice they own. The numbers underneath are the same numbers.
What actually changes.
Three things change in the first quarter. They are not features — they are the reasons a finance director signs.
Stop finding out at month-end.
Stock at cost, what is committed, what has arrived without an invoice and how far the close has got — all of it a consequence of postings that already happened, not a report somebody assembles when asked. The question that used to take two days to answer takes one screen.
Order, receipt and invoice are held against each other on every line. A unit price that moved between quote and invoice is raised before payment rather than discovered a year later, and the tolerance for what passes without a human is yours to set.
Nothing is assembled at close because nothing was left unposted. Cut-off, matching, accruals and departmental results run to a schedule your controller sets once, and the team spends the week analysing the numbers instead of building them.
The industry decides what is counted, what a cost centre is called and what has to be proved to an inspector. It does not decide the plumbing, which is identical underneath all six.
days to close, from three weeks
4
days to close, from three weeks
industries with a build of their own
6
industries with a build of their own
matching on every invoice, order and receipt
3-way
matching on every invoice, order and receipt
Targets the system is built to hit, not results measured at a named client.
You are not signing up for eighteen months.
Ten weeks to a first close, and a parallel run before anything is switched off. The timeline moves when your data does, which is why we look at it before we quote.
Week 1–2
Scope and data
We look at your item master, opening balances and chart of accounts before quoting. An ERP started on bad master data stays wrong for years, and that is the honest place to find out.
Week 3–6
Configure
Stores, cost codes, approval limits and the industry build are set up against how you actually operate rather than against a default template.
Week 7–9
Parallel run
One period posted in both systems side by side. Nobody switches off the old process on a promise.
Week 10
First close
Your first month-end on the system, run with us in the room. After that the schedule is yours.
Growing into a second site should not mean a second system.
Multi-site is structural here, not a pricing tier.
One site
A single operation that has outgrown spreadsheets but has no interest in a two-year programme.
One store, one ledger, one close
Live in about ten weeks
Nothing switched off before a parallel run
A group
Several sites, more than one company, and a consolidation that currently happens in a workbook nobody else can open.
Multi-site, multi-company, multi-currency
Inter-company transfers as postings
One consolidated close, one set of rules
It has to talk to what you already run.
An ERP that cannot read the system already taking your orders is a second set of books. These are the categories we connect as standard; the specific systems get confirmed during scoping, before anyone signs anything.
What sells
Revenue and consumption post themselves rather than being re-keyed.
Hotel PMS
Hospital HIS
Retail POS
Storefront
Marketplaces
What moves goods
Receipts, transfers and dispatches land as postings.
3PL and warehouse
Courier platforms
Barcode and RFID
Weighing and counting
What pays
Payables, collections and statements reconcile against the ledger.
Bank statement feeds
Payment gateways
Payroll
Existing accounting
What must be filed
Compliance output built in rather than bolted on afterwards.
e-Invoicing
SST reporting
Audit file export
Statutory formats
Your ledger
Where the data stands.
You are being asked to put your books inside someone else’s software. These are the three answers that should come before any of it.
You own it
Every transaction, master record and document belongs to your business and is exportable in full at any time, in a format your auditor accepts.
Nothing is quietly editable
Postings are not deleted, they are reversed, and every change carries who made it and when. That is what makes the ledger evidence rather than a working file.
You can leave
There is no hostage clause in the data. If you ever move on, you go with a complete export and a documented schema, not a support ticket.
The rest of the platform.
Three products on one data model and one vertical taxonomy. The industry you picked here is the industry you get there.
Straight answers on scope, implementation, what it replaces and what it does not.
Accounting software records what already happened, usually from documents typed in after the fact. An ERP is the operation itself — the order, the receipt, the transfer, the issue — with the accounting falling out of it as a by-product. That is why the close gets shorter: nothing has to be assembled, because it was posted as it happened.
Bring us your last month-end.
Tell us what closing actually looks like now — who assembles what, and how long the first week of the month costs you. We will show you the version that fits.