How TechFlow cut month-end close from 7 to 2 days
An electronics module manufacturer for automotive migrated from a mix of legacy ERP + Excel to Avenit. Month-end close shrank 3×, and the ops team got tooling they never had before.
The problem
TechFlow makes electronic modules for the automotive industry. 54 people, 3 warehouses, 12 production lines. Historically a combination of a legacy ERP for finance and stock, and Excel for everything else — BOMs, schedules, complaints.
Month-end close took a week. Not because the accountants were slow — because data from different sources didn’t match. Warehouse said one thing, production another, finance a third. Every BOM change meant manually updating 3 files. And mistakes happened — every quarter a “ghost” appeared that nobody could pin down.
“Every month-end close was an investigation. Three people for a week hunting down commas. I knew there had to be a better way.” — Anna Kowalska, CFO
Why Avenit
After an internal review they considered three options: upgrade the existing system, a large enterprise ERP, and Avenit. The existing one didn’t solve the BOM + scheduling gap. The enterprise option was 5× the budget and 6 months of implementation.
Avenit won on three things: all required modules natively integrated, no-code builder for custom product fields (IMEI numbers, RoHS certificates), and 6-week implementation instead of 6 months.
The results
- Month-end close: from 7 days to 2.
- Invoice errors: down 87%.
- BOMs & production: zero spreadsheets in circulation. Every BOM change updates schedule, costs, material needs automatically.
- Visibility: the CFO has a real-time profitability dashboard per production order for the first time.
“Two months after go-live my head accountant left the office before 5 pm on close-day. That’s my best KPI.” — Anna Kowalska, CFO