Transportation & Logistics
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MERU CASE STUDY
Fully automated FP&A reporting for a $350 million waste management company
COMPANY OVERVIEW
- Waste management company in California with 5 different business lines
- Annual revenue between $300-350 million
- The Company’s business lines operated as individual entities, and each had their own ERP and accounting systems, making P&L reporting highly manual and error prone
- Due to the disparate systems, senior management was unable to see drivers of profitability in real time to make day-to-day decisions
- Not being able to report on waste allocation posed a regulatory risk that could result in large fines from the state of California
OUR APPROACH
- Conducted 4-week data maturity assessment and built an FP&A reporting solution
- Visited all facilities to understand operational processes and identify pain points due to a lack of reporting capabilities
- Recommended an optimal data architecture to enable data integration for real-time analytical reporting
- Automated P&L reporting from 5 disparate accounting systems into one consolidated suite of dashboards
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OUR IMPACT
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MERU’s FP&A reporting solution automated 2 FTEs worth of effort and reduced the time to report from 1 week to 60 minutes, which in turn reduced the monthly time to close.
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The solution eliminated manual excel reporting, reducing user errors, greatly improving financial data quality and reducing regulatory and audit risk.
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MERU designed the data infrastructure for the company using a Modern Data Stack approach to create a cost-effective yet scalable data warehouse to integrate all company data in one location for consolidated reporting.