The Path to Sweet Success: Taking Business to the Next Level with Sage Intacct
How we helped a Louisiana cooperative improve their data’s accuracy, increase productivity, and allow for proactive business management.
Client
For over 200 years, Louisiana’s sugarcane farming families and sugar mills have continuously overcome adversity. Our client was established as an agricultural marketing cooperative to serve these families and mills. With over 800 growers and eight mills, our client provides product marketing, administers receipt and distribution of funds flowing through the cooperative, and manages the interest of the organization and the cooperative.
Challenge
Our client’s team meets the cooperative’s evolving needs by establishing and maintaining best practices, processes, and technology. To this end, our client raised concerns with EisnerAmper that their product vendor no longer supported its current accounting system.
Conversations with the client uncovered additional pain points, including:
- Manual processes and over-reliance on spreadsheets;
- Lack of robust reporting and visibility to drive decision-making;
- Concerns for data integrity in the system of record;
- No access to data from remote locations; and
- Difficulty in adapting to new business requirements.
Approach
We helped our client identify their vision, strategic objectives, and requirements for a new accounting system. The client envisioned a new reality where a single, robust system would support both the accounting and operational needs of the organization by:
- Automating the day-to-day tasks that had grown cumbersome and costly;
- Providing one-click reporting and dashboards to get real-time updates easily;
- Supporting one source of truth for data;
- Allowing for access to financial data anytime, anywhere; and
- Delivering functionality to keep up with the organization’s growth and complexity.
We identified Sage Intacct as the ideal solution to address the client’s requirements and challenges and allow their vision to become a reality. Sage Intacct, the best-in-class cloud accounting software, would support the automation of the organization’s core processes, multiple entities, remote team members, and real-time data visibility.
Our team implemented the solution using a multi-stage methodology. This consistent and thorough approach helped us complete the client’s implementation efficiently and confirm that it started to drive business value immediately.
The detailed review that [EisnerAmper] provided was one of the best descriptions of what we do.
The Sage Intacct Journey
Months 1 - 6: Best Practice
Months 6 - 12: Transform
Months 12+: Elevate
Results
Like many organizations, our client was using a system that trapped them in the past. Their old system created a struggle with outdated architecture, functional limitations, unnecessary risks, and the costs of being unable to gain real-time visibility into the organization's financial and operational key performance indicators.
Our client has experienced many benefits after implementing Sage Intacct, including:
- Increased accuracy and predictability of data;
- Elimination of wasted time and redundancy;
- Increased productivity;
- Proactive management of the business; and
- A better experience for the members of the cooperative.
They have since partnered with EisnerAmper on additional application development projects including replacing an antiquated in-house built system at several individual mills, as well as replacement of access database system housing operational data for the cooperative.
Sage Intacct Cloud Accounting