From 2 analyzers to 20 per 12-week period.
Envent Engineering outgrew disconnected accounting, manufacturing, inventory, and sales processes as the Calgary-based analyzer manufacturer expanded globally. Acumatica Manufacturing gave the company real-time financial and operational visibility and supported rapid growth across locations.
- Company
- Envent Engineering
- Industry
- Analyzer manufacturing for oil & natural gas
- Headquarters
- Calgary, Alberta
- Replaced
- Separate accounting packages + spreadsheets
- Solution
- Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Company & challenges
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Envent Engineering designs and manufactures analyzers used by oil and natural gas customers to measure gases and moisture.
As the company grew, operations in Calgary and Houston relied on different accounting packages, spreadsheets, and disconnected records. Managers had difficulty getting timely data about costs, inventory, and profitability.
Procuring materials for manufacturing was rudimentary at best. The original study describes engineers identifying components as they built each analyzer and completing actual-cost calculations only after pricing had been agreed with customers. With approximately 1,800 parts required for an analyzer, some with long lead times, manual inventory planning made it difficult to hold the right quantities.
Envent also faced pandemic-era supply-chain shortages, especially for microprocessors, along with sharply higher component costs. This tightened margins and made inventory planning more difficult.
The solution
Envent evaluated several ERP options before selecting Acumatica Manufacturing Edition. The system brought financial management, material requirements planning, bills of materials, inventory, order management, and sales information into a connected environment.
“The actual time to build any analyzer is roughly the same, but it’s how many of them we can build concurrently that changed.”
Andy HodgsonChief Executive Officer, Envent Engineering
The benefits
More production without extending the order window
The source reported that Envent increased output from 2 units to 20 units in a 12-week period. Chief Executive Officer Andy Hodgson described the improvement as an increase in the number of analyzers the company could build at the same time, rather than a shorter build time for each unit.
Lower inventory costs and better materials planning
Acumatica gave Envent clearer information about purchased materials, inventory levels, and product costs. The original case study reported inventory carrying-cost reductions of millions of dollars. Teams in Calgary and Houston could see inventory availability across their operations, reducing the risk of assigning parts that were already committed to other customer orders.
Real-time financial and operational visibility
Instead of assembling board reports from spreadsheets and delayed figures, executives could review financial and operational information directly in Acumatica. Cloud access made reports available to leaders working away from the office, while timelier product-cost information helped them assess profitability.
Sales and project coordination
A shared CRM helped Envent’s sales teams coordinate customer activity and avoid duplicate outreach. The project-accounting functions also helped the company track hours, materials, and costs for research and development work associated with Canada’s SR&ED program.
- Increased production from 2 units to 20 units per 12-week period, as reported in the original study.
- Reduced inventory carrying costs by millions of dollars, according to the source case study.
- Gained real-time visibility into financial results, product costs, and operational activity.
- Improved inventory planning and visibility between Calgary and Houston operations.
- Connected sales information and manufacturing processes within one ERP platform.
Solution stack
Source: Acumatica Customer Success — Envent Engineering.
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