Telesis, Inc.

Diversified Nebraska Firm Telesis, Inc. Runs Six Companies on Acumatica ERP

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Acumatica Cloud ERP solution for Telesis, Inc.

Video transcript: Telesis Success Story

Telesis is the parent company for five separate entities. We have three manufacturing businesses, four restaurants, and we have a property holdings company. It was becoming difficult to have siloed businesses. It was hard to to see inventory in real time. It was hard to see sales in real time. Anytime you needed to get into the system and find what you were looking for was time consuming and cumbersome. Previously, it took forty hours to to close a period out. It was, challenging to get that information out to them and keep it updated so they could make decisions. We also did do quadruple data entry and then hours and days of validation and correction of that data entry just to continue operating. Our current bar understood the complexity of our businesses and came to us with Acumatica and said, this is what you've been asking for all your life. The intuitiveness of the system is really important for me because I can go into any one of our companies and see how well we are doing. With the automations that we've got from Acumatica, we're probably down forty percent I'd say to about twenty five man hours to get the months closed. What used to take a day and a half to enter invoices, it's maybe fifteen minutes. You just click import. So that's been huge. Once we we got into using Acumatica, we realized it was like scratching the surface. We're able to see more with inventory now than I ever could before. I never could actually see it. It was in paper and spreadsheets. It was ridiculous. We basically went from a thirteen million dollar company to a twenty three million dollar company since we implemented Acumatica. Algorithm's been great. We've been with them for over twenty years. Anything that we've ever asked them about Acumatica, they're experts. They're very knowledgeable. So for Telesis, Acumatica was perfect for them because it fits all the different versions of the type of companies that they were offering, and we can do phase one, phase two, phase three, and grow with them as their business operations change. Acumatica listens. Whether it's an idea or a challenge somebody's running into, and the next thing you know, it's in the next software update. I've never worked with a company that listens like that. I would say that Acumatica is great because it's easy to learn, it's easy to use, and you can scale it up as you get more sophisticated. It gives you all the features that you need to run your business. So I don't think there's any scenario you can come up with that says Acumatica won't work for you.

Acumatica Cloud ERP solution for Telesis, Inc.

Company Highlights

Location

Lincoln, Nebraska USA

Industry

Agriculture and Farming, Manufacturing

System Replaced

Macola

Country

USA

Number of Employees

250-500

Revenue

$10M - $50M

Product Used

Manufacturing

Applications Used

Order Management, Field Service Management, Fixed Assets, Inventory Control, Equipment Management

Sub-Industry

Hospitality and Food Service, Real Estate, Information Disposal Equipment Manufacturing

Doubled

production of equipment

40%

reduction of inventory-on-hand

3 months

faster to close year-end books

Challenges

Telesis, Inc., the parent company of three manufacturing firms, several restaurants, an urban farm, and a real estate company, ran into challenges running its businesses on legacy Macola and spreadsheets. Inventory inaccuracies delayed production. Financial processes were slow and error-prone, requiring double the finance staff. Restaurant operations struggled with manual invoice entries and delayed reporting. Limited data visibility and outdated tools left executives waiting hours for reports.

"Macola was hard to update. You couldn’t change it live or have revisions. That was impossible. So, we had a lot of Excel spreadsheets, and a lot of different tracking."

Renee Schafer , Chief Operating Officer

Data Security, Inc.

ERP Solutions

Telesis, Inc. chose Acumatica Manufacturing for its flexibility, open API, and ability to connect operations across six companies. Executives liked that it provided end-to-end visibility into operational capabilities, including CRM, reporting and analytics, spending, and productivity in a single platform and that Acumatica is highly configurable, allowing businesses to operate how they see fit. The platform’s open API that allows third-party applications to seamlessly connect, and offers editions tailored to specific industries.

"When our partner showed me how seamless Acumatica was from a sale through shipping from start to finish, all in one process in one software, that was huge for me."

Renee Schafer, Chief Operating Officer

Data Security, Inc.

Outcome

With Acumatica, Telesis, Inc. doubled production, reduced in-stock inventory by 40%, and cut year-end close time by three months. Automated workflows eliminated manual data entry, saving time and reducing errors. Real-time data improved decision-making and operational efficiency across all entities. Custom dashboards provide instant KPIs, while automated workflows helped them streamline processes at every company.

"I couldn’t even tell you how much we’ve benefited. It’s ridiculous. At Data Security, we have built over two times the amount from before Acumatica. "

Renee Schafer, Chief Operating Officer

Data Security, Inc.

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