{"id":3389,"date":"2021-12-09T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dmsi.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2024-02-09T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:59:31","slug":"concannon-lumber-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmsi.com\/resources\/concannon-lumber-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Concannon Lumber Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concannon Lumber Company<\/h2>\n

How to Leverage Agility ERP More Effectively: An Audit Story <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Concannon Lumber Company, which\u00a0trades, manufactures, and maintains inventories of lumber, plywood, and specialty forest products worldwide, had a problem.\u00a0Despite using Agility<\/a> inventory and accounting software for a decade, they\u00a0felt like they could be doing more with it. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur users became complacent,\u201d said Jane Ryan, Controller. \u201cNobody wanted to change what they were doing, so they weren’t paying attention to new features.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cindy McCarville,\u00a0Senior Account Manager at\u00a0DMSi, understood their situation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf your current processes work and nothing feels broken, people forget\u00a0to ask how to do it better. There\u2019s so much untapped potential in Agility.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concannon<\/a>\u2019s leadership decided to bring in McCarville to evaluate and improve their current processes. She\u00a0spent two days with the staff in their Portland, OR office to\u00a0observe processes and learn\u00a0about their goals.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCindy took the time to really understand the nuances of our business,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cFor instance, our export and internal domestic sales teams need totally different information. Also, one of our owners prefers detailed reports, but the other prefers seeing the big picture.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After her visit, McCarville created a report outlining steps Concannon Lumber Company’s team could take to leverage Agility more effectively. She followed up with several phone calls to Ryan to discuss the recommendations and strategies for implementing the changes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things happened quickly after that, with results soon following. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now using all sorts of functions,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cAutomated processing. Amazing. That whole system has completely changed the way we run our weekly reports.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By automating manual tasks, Ryan has more time to focus on higher-value activities. Instead of going in early every Monday to run the daily balancing reports, they now\u00a0run automatically on Sunday nights. A task that used to take an hour and a half now took five minutes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another major win for Concannon is journal entry import. Previously, the accounting staff would manually update recurring entries each month. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCindy showed us how to do the journal entry import. We quit using recurring entries because now, everything is on import. It\u2019s such an amazing tool.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to recommending specific Agility functions, McCarville\u2019s report also covered best practices for things like dashboards and user interfaces. \u201cEven little tricks like customizing the order entry screen made a huge difference,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cWe set up different headers for the export and domestic sales teams so people don\u2019t have to look at information they don\u2019t need. Setting those up the right way really improved people\u2019s efficiency.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow people are looking for new things on their own,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cIt\u2019s changed\u00a0people\u2019s mindset altogether.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concannon Lumber Company How to Leverage Agility ERP More Effectively: An Audit Story \u00a0 Concannon Lumber Company, which\u00a0trades, manufactures, and maintains inventories of lumber, plywood, and specialty forest products worldwide, had a problem.\u00a0Despite using Agility inventory and accounting software for a decade, they\u00a0felt like they could be doing more with it. \u00a0 \u201cOur users became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-story"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nConcannon Lumber Company - DMSi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The leadership of Concannon Lumber Company decided to bring in DMSi to evaluate and improve their current processes in Agility.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dmsi.com\/resources\/concannon-lumber-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concannon Lumber Company - 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