Financial-statement close cut from 15 days to five.
REMCAN Projects expanded across Canada while finance and field teams still relied on disconnected accounting, time, expense, and field-reporting processes. After moving to Acumatica Construction Edition, the company reported faster closes, mobile expense and time submission, and more timely financial information.
- Company
- REMCAN Projects
- Industry
- Railway maintenance and civil infrastructure
- Headquarters
- Langley, British Columbia
- Replaced
- Legacy finance system + spreadsheets and paper forms
- Solution
- Acumatica Construction Edition
Company & challenges
Based in Langley, British Columbia, REMCAN provides railway maintenance, construction, bridge, and civil infrastructure services across Canada. As its operations and transaction volumes grew, a legacy finance system with limited user access forced many accounting, billing, and approval tasks into separate tools.
Manual processing was substantial. The original customer account described a 200-page fuel invoice that took three to five days to enter into spreadsheets and the accounting software. Field employees sent hours and expenses on spreadsheets or paper forms, sometimes as photographs, emails, or faxes. Billing and payroll staff then entered the same data separately.
REMCAN had processed about 40,000 field ticket reports in the year before the customer interview. It needed more people to access reliable information from the field and a way to connect its existing field-ticket application to finance.
The solution
REMCAN evaluated eight ERP systems before selecting Acumatica Construction Edition. The new environment supported financial management, contracts, fixed assets, and inventory. Mobile time and expense submissions could flow into the business system, reducing the need for billing and payroll teams to re-enter field records.
“The team has real time data and it’s been a big improvement.”
Jason ThomasPresident, REMCAN Projects
The benefits
Shorter close and less duplicate entry
REMCAN reported cutting its financial-statement close from 15 days to five days. More complete field information and less duplicate entry gave finance staff time for analysis instead of repeated period-end processing. The company also reported handling growing transaction volumes without a corresponding increase in accounting headcount.
More people working from current data
The number of employees using REMCAN’s financial system increased fourfold after deployment, according to the source. Field employees gained mobile access for expenses and time, and finance teams could review aged receivables, profitability, and reporting data sooner. Connected data also supported business-intelligence dashboards.
Six-week setup of a new entity
REMCAN also reported bringing a newly formed railway construction and maintenance business in Quebec onto Acumatica in about six weeks. The completed rollout illustrated how the connected finance platform could be extended to another entity without rebuilding the reporting process from scratch.
- Reduced the financial-statement close from 15 days to five days, according to the customer.
- Brought a new Quebec railway entity onto Acumatica in approximately six weeks.
- Enabled field employees to submit working hours and expenses from mobile devices.
- Reported a fourfold increase in financial-system users after go-live.
- Improved access to profitability, aged receivables, and cross-system reporting.
Solution stack
Source: Acumatica Customer Success — REMCAN Projects.
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