Case Studies

The businesses that put their books on one system.

Distributors, manufacturers, membership bodies and charities have run their ledgers, stock and order processing on DataFlow for decades. These are their stories, with the figures each business reported at the time.

Financial services

JCB International

How JCB International saved 10 days a month on currency work

  • Ten days a month saved: manual currency conversion eradicated.
  • Reporting in any base currency: no costly or time-consuming conversions.
  • Eight years of reliable monthly reporting: automatic management reports, month in, month out.
Read the JCB International story
Not for profit

The Chamber of Shipping

How the Chamber of Shipping went from 2,000 nominal headings to 150

  • Chart of accounts rationalised: over 2,000 nominal headings reduced to 150.
  • Management reports in a fraction of the time: cost centres replaced heading sprawl.
  • Data transfer in under a day: the upload itself took a click.
Read the Chamber of Shipping story
Engineering

Matcon

How Matcon holds gross margin on fixed-price contracts

  • Margins protected: cost and gross margin always in view on fixed-price contracts.
  • No double entry: project costs captured once, not re-keyed into a separate cost ledger.
  • Committed costs counted: spend included before it reaches the financial ledgers.
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Financial services

AAP

How AAP doubled turnover without losing control of the books

  • Turnover doubled in two years: the accounts function kept pace with the workload.
  • Audit trail to transaction level: every entry stamped with user, date and time.
  • Bespoke systems integrated: an in-house Access valuation system feeding the ledgers.
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Charity

British Heart Foundation

How the British Heart Foundation switched systems in four days

  • Four-day switchover: data converted, tested and trained with no parallel running.
  • Charity accounting kept intact: the software fitted their practices, not the reverse.
  • Accruals in minutes: 120 items imported from Excel by drag and drop.
Read the British Heart Foundation story
Distribution & e-commerce

How Core Products put DataFlow at the centre of e-commerce and distribution

  • Orders straight to the warehouse: web orders flow into pick, pack and stock control.
  • Carriers integrated: package weights, volumes, pallet numbers and destinations passed automatically.
  • Three companies, one system: inter-company purchases handled without friction.
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Food & drink distribution

How Anjoman Foods went from four software suppliers to one

  • Four suppliers down to one: a single point of contact for support.
  • Reporting time recovered: the accounts team stopped fighting the month.
  • Stock under control: warehouse teams recording deliveries and shipments on mobile devices.
Read the Anjoman Foods story
B2B e-commerce

Parsia International

How Parsia answered a competitor’s web shop in eight weeks

  • Live in eight weeks: start to finish, across finance, operations and sales.
  • Orders straight through: picked and packed within minutes of being placed.
  • Per-customer catalogues: user profiles control which products and prices each buyer sees.
Read the Parsia International story
Media & entertainment

How De Wolfe Music integrated its royalty system in three days

  • Royalty system integrated in three days: sales, purchase and nominal transactions post instantly.
  • Eight companies on one system: the businesses that make up De Wolfe Music.
  • Support inside half an hour: the response time that mattered most to them.
Read the De Wolfe Music story
Membership body

BCS

How BCS migrated its ledgers in four weeks

  • Live in four weeks: hit the start of the new financial year.
  • On budget: the installation came in within it.
  • Four nominal ledgers: Society, branches, specialist groups and subsidiary.
Read the BCS story
Distribution

Architectural Ceramics

How Architectural Ceramics built the systems for a three-year growth plan

  • Invoices out faster: exported directly to the third-party factoring company.
  • CRM joined up: DataFlow integrated with Maximizer.
  • Quotes through to invoice: a bespoke Job File Manager feeding sales order processing.
Read the Architectural Ceramics story
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