Scalable Financial Backbone: ERP That Ships, Not Slows
At a glance
CLIENT
Global display & electronics manufacturer
SERVICE
- Core ERP modernization, Data migration, Analytics, Operating model & enablement
INDUSTRY
- High-Tech Manufacturing
The manufacturer had finance and operations spread across multiple ERP instances, plant tools, and spreadsheets. Month-end close routinely overran by 5–7 days, intercompany reconciliations triggered late-night war rooms, and changes for new product lines piled up because the stack couldn’t keep pace. Leaders asked for one enterprise software backbone with consistent controls, auditable data, faster order-to-cash, and minimal disruption to plants already running at capacity.
LeanCoded designed and delivered a cloud ERP core on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain using on-premise to cloud migration patterns, regional rollouts, and API-led integrations. We unified the chart of accounts, automated consolidations, established governed data flows, and standardized item masters and routings. Results after stabilization: 2.5 days faster close, 28% faster invoice cycle time, 35% fewer manual reconciliations, and 99.8% pick/pack accuracy—evidence that a composable backbone can raise enterprise value without freezing operations. (Keywords used: enterprise software, custom software development, software development services, erp software development, migration to cloud, on-premise to cloud migration, enterprise value.)
Cutovers You Can Trust, Not Fear
Finance ran three semi-independent ledgers with local rules. Plants scheduled production in a legacy MRP while logistics relied on spreadsheets. There were 40+ point-to-point interfaces, frequent data breaks, and no single version of truth for COGS or WIP. IT spent 20–30% of capacity on break/fix. Month-end meant manual eliminations and offline allocation models; revenue recognition logic varied by region; executives waited nearly a week for statements they trusted. Any change to BOM routing or item attributes rippled inconsistently, often discovered during audit rather than during planning.
We implemented D365 Finance & Supply Chain as the operational backbone, standardized the chart of accounts, and codified intercompany flows. Flat files gave way to API-first integration with WMS, PLM, and CPQ; Power BI models surfaced P&L/COGS by product family; and access was hardened with Azure AD and conditional policies. Cutover followed a no-drama playbook: a single production window, parallel run for one fiscal cycle, then decommission. Finance moved to workflowed journals and policy-based approvals; plants operate against unified item masters and routings; and the board receives same-day flash with variance drill-downs. (Keywords used: enterprise software solution, custom software development services, cloud devops.)
Numbers That Changed the Behavior
Data migration covered 25M+ rows of historical transactions and masters (items, BOMs, routings, vendors, customers) with deterministic mapping, dual-write during hypercare, and audit trails end-to-end. EDI shifted into managed flows, removing midnight re-keys. Standard cost updates propagate across plants in minutes, not days. Freight accruals and landed-cost calculations became event-driven; AP three-way match auto-clears 82% of lines; exceptions route to owners with SLA clocks. Order-to-cash lead time dropped 28%, inventory accuracy stabilized at 99.8%, and month-end close shrank by 2.5 days. The CIO reallocated roughly 18% of former break/fix capacity to roadmap items—analytics, self-service reporting, and plant scheduling improvements. (Keywords used: software development services, business enterprise software, data migration to the cloud).
Harmonized financial core
API over batch
Data you can trust
Plant-ready ops
Resilient cutover
Security by design
Azure AD, least-privilege roles, environment parity, automated evidence for auditors.
Roadmap in motion
What the Business Gained
By consolidating onto a single core, finance now closes faster with fewer escalations, planners trust inventory positions, and sales quotes reflect real cost and lead times. The platform is extensible: new entities, acquisitions, or plants join with repeatable playbooks rather than bespoke projects. This is custom software development applied to the backbone—measurable, governed, and incremental.
- Faster close, fewer escalations
- Quicker order-to-cash
- Fewer manual reconciliations
- 99.8% inventory accuracy
- Legacy tools retired
- API-first integrations
What’s Next: Scale Without Rewriting the World
We will extend planning with S&OP simulations, integrate supplier scorecards, and expose self-service analytics to plant managers. Devops release trains keep finance stable while we iterate: automated tests (600+ checks), blue/green data refreshes, and change windows aligned to fiscal calendars. Cost-to-serve and contribution margin roll into standard models; demand sensing pilots target critical SKUs. As the company expands, a repeatable “new plant kit” bundles master-data onboarding, security roles, and interface templates—outsourcing software development where it accelerates, keeping core stewardship in-house. (Keywords used: devops, outsourcing software development, software development outsourcing.)