Case studies

Examples of how organisations in different industries solved real problems, from single-site improvements to multi-country programmes.

Designers at work in an open-plan agency studio
Marketing and Advertising Agencies

Timesheets to billing for an independent creative agency

An independent US creative and media agency connected timesheets, vendor costs and media spend to each job, billed within days of delivery and changed its pricing once it saw profit…

1,500 jobs Each with time, vendor and media cost recorded against it

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Facility Management

Work orders and service levels for a facility management provider

A Saudi facility management provider tracked every work order against contract service levels as it happened, scheduled technicians across sites and found contracts that were losing money.

30,000 a month Work orders tracked against contract response and fix times as they happen

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Trucks lined up at a busy haulage depot
Logistics, Transport and Warehousing

Proof-of-delivery billing for a West African haulier

A Nigerian haulage and warehousing company captured proof of delivery electronically, invoiced within days instead of weeks, costed every trip and re-priced unprofitable routes.

7,000 a month Trips now costed individually from fuel, tolls, driver allowances and maintenance

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Line crew working on an overhead power line in farmland
Energy and Utilities

Maintenance planning for an electricity distribution network

A New Zealand electricity distributor replaced paper work orders with planned maintenance on mobile devices, reviewed critical spares by criticality and avoided long outages.

5 depots Moved from paper job packs to mobile work orders

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Bridge rehabilitation work under way beside a river
Construction and Engineering Contracting

Progress billing and subcontractor payments for a civil contractor

A Canadian civil and building contractor sped up progress certification, controlled subcontractor billing and linked site costs to budgets every week, which improved cash flow across its projects.

40 projects Reporting cost against budget on one weekly cycle

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Excavators and rollers lined up in a rental depot yard
Heavy Equipment Rental

Preventive maintenance for an equipment rental fleet

An Australian equipment rental company moved from repairing breakdowns to servicing by engine hours, found idle machines across its depots and redeployed them to where demand was.

2,600 machines On one fleet view across 23 depots

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Real Estate Development

Project cost and collections tracking for a residential developer

An Egyptian residential developer replaced monthly cost reviews with weekly tracking against budget, linked instalment collections to cash plans and spotted overruns and arrears early.

14 projects Reported on one set of budget, unit and collections data

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Haul truck and drill rig at an open-pit mine
Capital Equipment Procurement

Supplier quotation comparison for a mining services group

A mining services group in Chile and Peru moved capital equipment quotes out of email into structured comparisons, tied advance payments to milestones and made purchasing decisions transparent.

60 a year Capital purchases compared on one structured template

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Shipping containers stacked at a port at dusk
Industrial Raw Material Trading

Landed cost allocation for a polymer and chemicals trader

An Asian polymer and chemicals trader replaced estimated costs with actual landed cost by lot, tracked shipments in transit and currency exposure, and found lots that lost money after freight…

11 branches Pricing from one landed-cost view

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Delivery lorry being loaded in a builders' merchant yard
Building Materials Trading

Quote-to-delivery workflow for a builders’ merchant

A 34-branch builders' merchant connected quotes, credit checks, stock and proof of delivery in one workflow, cutting quantity disputes and tightening terms for its riskiest contractors.

34 branches Quoting from one set of stock and price data

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Shoppers in a well-stocked supermarket aisle
Retail and Supermarkets

Replenishment planning for an 85-branch supermarket chain

A regional supermarket chain replaced habit-based ordering with central replenishment, tackled shrinkage and promotion waste, and gave managers sales and margin by store every morning.

85 branches Ordering and reporting from one set of product data

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Food Ingredients and Specialty Chemicals

Certificates of analysis on time for an ingredients producer

A food ingredients and specialty chemicals producer issued certificates of analysis with every shipment, controlled formulations across three sites and found products priced below true cost.

900 products Each made to one controlled formulation

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Quality officer sampling maize from a delivery lorry
Agro-Processing and Milling

Buying grain by grade for an East African miller

A three-country maize and wheat miller moved from buying on price alone to buying by grade, linking intake quality to milling yield and cost, and improved its margin.

3 mills Buying from one set of grade and supplier data

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Packaged Food and Beverage

Lot traceability for a snack and beverage producer

After a slow, costly recall, a snack and beverage producer built lot traceability across four plants and its distributors, and found that some of its promotions were losing money.

4 plants Recording ingredient lots, production lots and pallets one way

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Pharma Distribution and Healthcare Supply

First-expiry-first-out picking for a pharmaceutical wholesaler

A pharmaceutical wholesaler with five distribution centres enforced first-expiry-first-out picking, monitored the cold chain continuously and cut expiry write-offs, then proved its traceability in a recall.

5 centres Running one expiry-led picking process

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Field engineer servicing a diagnostic analyser in a laboratory
Medical Devices and Diagnostics

Installed-base service planning for a diagnostics maker

A diagnostics maker linked every analyser's serial history, service visits and complaints, moving from reactive call-outs to planned visits and closing complaint cases far faster.

4,800 analysers Tracked by serial number with full service history

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Hospitals and Clinics

Consumable demand forecasting for a hospital group

A private hospital group forecast pharmacy and consumable demand by facility, standardised equipment maintenance and claims, and saw cost per department for the first time.

4 hospitals And 14 clinics on one replenishment process

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Cleanroom operator recording a batch step on a tablet
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Audit-ready batch records for a generics manufacturer

A generics manufacturer moved batch records, material control and change control onto one system across three facilities, shortening batch release and making audits far less disruptive.

3,200 batches A year across 250 products

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Textile and Apparel

Material planning for a garment exporter across five factories

A garment exporter planned fabric and trims by style, colour and size across five factories and its subcontractors, cutting late fabric and learning which buyers and styles made money.

5 factories Planning from one set of style and material data

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Technicians assembling generator sets in a factory hall
Power Equipment, Generators and Batteries

Imported component planning for a generator and battery maker

A power equipment maker in three countries planned imported components against real lead times, set deliberate buffers and standardised configurations, ending most shortage stoppages.

3 countries Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam planning from one set of master data

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Refrigerators moving along an assembly line
Home Appliances and Consumer Durables

Demand planning with dealers for an appliance maker

A home appliance maker gave its planners sight of dealer and distributor stock for the first time, improving forecasts, cutting finished-goods stock and catching a warranty problem early.

1,400 dealers And 30 distributors offered a weekly stock and sales upload

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Automotive and Auto Components

Scheduling by line and variant across four component plants

An auto components maker replaced a shared planning spreadsheet with line-and-variant scheduling across four plants, cutting changeovers and exposing variants that lost money.

2,600 variants Produced on 70 shared lines

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Public sector

A policy guidance assistant that cites its sources

A public body gave its caseworkers an assistant that answers questions from approved policy only, cites the exact paragraph behind each answer and logs every query for audit.

6,000 pages Of policy, guidance and procedure in the approved library

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Lorries at the loading docks of a distribution warehouse
Logistics

Freight invoice matching that explains every difference

A contract logistics firm automated the matching of carrier invoices to shipments, approved clean matches automatically and showed reviewers the reason behind every difference.

9,000 a month Carrier invoices from about 180 carriers

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Family speaking with an admissions officer at a school reception
Education

An admissions enquiry assistant with clear escalation

An international school group answered routine admissions questions instantly in five languages, and handed families to staff whenever a conversation needed a person.

25,000 Enquiries in each admissions season

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Consultants working on a proposal together around a table
Professional services

A proposal assistant built on approved content

An engineering consultancy gave bid teams an assistant that drafts from approved, current proposal content only, with a source link on every answer and outdated material retired.

40,000 Documents in the archive before approved content was selected

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Maintenance engineer inspecting an injection-moulding press
Manufacturing

Early warning of machine failure that planners act on

A plastics moulding operator combined sensor readings with maintenance history to warn planners before machines failed, and tuned its alerts until they were trusted.

340 machines Across 2 plants, looked after by a maintenance team of 28

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Clinical administrator working on documentation in a hospital office
Healthcare

Clinical documentation support with privacy designed in

A hospital group gave clinical administrators an assistant that drafts referral summaries and letters inside its secure environment, with clinicians signing off every item.

9,000 a month Incoming referrals, alongside 15,000 outgoing clinical letters

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Store colleague checking stock levels in a well-stocked aisle
Retail

Replenishment forecasting that store planners trust

A home and garden retailer replaced habit-based store ordering with forecasts that explain themselves, cutting stock-outs and overstock while planners kept the final say.

118 stores Replenished from 1 central distribution centre

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Finance team members reviewing supplier invoices at their desks
Finance

Invoice processing that sends exceptions to people

A finance shared-service centre automated supplier invoice capture and matching, starting in suggestion mode and keeping every low-confidence invoice with its staff.

14,000 a month Supplier invoices for 7 legal entities, in 4 languages and 3 currencies

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Operations

A support agent that earned its autonomy through approval gates

An operations support desk handed routine requests to an AI agent that asked permission for every action at first, and gained autonomy only as its accuracy was proven.

6,000 a month Service requests reaching the desk, about two-thirds of them routine

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Bid team working on a proposal together
Professional services

A knowledge assistant for proposals

A consultancy with thousands of past proposals built a permission-aware knowledge assistant over approved content, drafting proposals faster with consistent content and visible sources.

12,000 documents sifted into an approved library

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Accounts payable specialist reviewing an invoice exception
Finance

Invoice processing with exceptions routed to people

A finance team keying thousands of supplier invoices a month introduced AI document reading with validation and an exception queue, proving accuracy in suggestion mode before automating posting.

5,000 invoices a month read automatically

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Patient checking in on a phone at a clinic reception
Healthcare

A patient appointment app for a clinic network

A dental and physiotherapy clinic network where patients phoned to book launched a secure appointment app, cutting calls to reception and reducing missed appointments.

6 clinics on one booking app

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Customer scanning a loyalty app at a store till
Retail

A loyalty app for a retail chain

A retail chain whose customers were anonymous at checkout launched a loyalty app with accounts, offers and a wallet, identifying more customers and making offers measurable.

150 stores on one till routine

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Technician recording a job on a tablet in a plant room
Field services

An offline technician app for a field service firm

A field service firm with hundreds of technicians replaced paper job sheets with a mobile app that works offline, so jobs are recorded on site, billing is faster and disputes…

300 technicians recording jobs on site

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Business owner accessing documents on a laptop
Professional services

A secure client portal for a professional services firm

An accountancy and advisory firm exchanging sensitive documents by email built a secure client portal, so clients find documents themselves, requests fall and security improves.

2,500 clients with secure self-service access

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Shopper using a phone in a garden centre
Retail

A faster online store for a retailer

A retailer with thousands of products and a slow, long checkout measured where shoppers dropped out, then rebuilt key pages and checkout, giving faster pages and more completed orders.

8,000 products with new search and filters

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Education

A multi-campus website platform for a school group

A school group with several campuses and languages moved to one website platform with a shared design system and campus microsites, keeping the brand consistent while campus teams update their…

5 sites → 1 platform for every campus

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Finance colleagues discussing payments in an open-plan office
Finance

A payment approvals workflow for a finance team

A finance team approving hundreds of payments a month by email moved to a workflow with clear limits and a full audit trail, making approvals faster and audits easier.

900 approvals a month through one workflow

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Customer service and warehouse colleagues in an ingredients warehouse
Trading

Automated order intake for a trading company

A trading company receiving hundreds of emailed orders a week automated extraction and validation into its ERP, with an exception queue that keeps staff in control.

600 orders a week read from email automatically

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Manufacturing

A shop-floor reporting application for a manufacturer

A manufacturer collecting production data on paper replaced it with an operator-designed shop-floor application, making data available the same day and helping supervisors act faster.

6 lines on live dashboards

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Admissions officer showing a family around a school
Education

An admissions and enquiry application for a school group

A multi-campus school group replaced separate enquiry spreadsheets with a custom admissions application, following up enquiries faster and tracking conversion for the first time.

4 campuses on 1 enquiry pipeline

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Patient booking a clinic appointment on a smartphone at home
Healthcare

A secure patient portal for a clinic network

A network of clinics built a secure patient portal for online booking, records access, messaging and reminders, designed around privacy from the start to speed approvals.

8 clinics on 1 patient portal

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Delivery driver checking a mobile app in a van cab at a depot
Logistics

A custom dispatch platform for a logistics firm

A logistics firm whose dispatch routine no product matched commissioned a custom platform with planning, a driver app, proof of delivery and automatic customer updates.

350 vehicles tracked live by dispatchers

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Buyer and warehouse supervisor talking in an electrical distribution warehouse
Distribution

Procure-to-pay clarity for a distributor

A distributor buying from hundreds of suppliers replaced email purchasing with NetSuite approvals, receipts and three-way matching, speeding up purchasing and making spend visible.

400 suppliers cleansed and migrated with verified terms

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Retail and ecommerce

One stock number across channels for an omnichannel retailer

A retailer selling in stores and online connected inventory, orders and channels in NetSuite before peak season, ending oversells and handling returns consistently.

30 stores + 3 channels sharing 1 stock number

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Technology

Billing and consolidation for a multi-subsidiary software group

A software group with several subsidiaries and currencies moved subscription billing, revenue recognition and consolidation onto NetSuite, making revenue reporting reliable and month-end simpler.

6 subsidiaries consolidated in one month-end close

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Trucks at loading bays of a regional distribution centre at dawn
Retail and distribution

Consolidating regional SAP systems for a distributor

A distributor with separate regional systems and warehouses consolidated onto one SAP template, gaining a group view of stock and margin and routine intercompany reconciliation.

5 SAP systems → 1 regional landscapes consolidated

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Energy and Utilities

Maintenance and critical spares control for a utility

A utility operating plants and networks brought maintenance, spares and regulatory reporting together in SAP, guided by asset criticality, raising planned work and spares availability.

8,000 spare parts under one stock policy

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Manufacturing

Migrating a legacy SAP landscape to S/4HANA for a global manufacturer

A manufacturer with plants on three continents moved an ageing SAP landscape to S/4HANA, cleaning custom code and master data and cutting over plant by plant with limited disruption.

7 plants cut over one at a time

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Light manufacturing

Production and stock control for a small manufacturer

A small manufacturer producing to order and to stock moved bills of materials, production orders and costing into Business Central, reducing shortages and making product costs accurate.

600 components under scanned stock control

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Site manager checking a phone on a construction site
Contracting

Job costing for a regional contractor

A regional contractor running dozens of concurrent jobs moved job budgets, subcontractor claims and progress invoicing into Business Central, seeing overruns early rather than at completion.

40 live jobs with monthly cost-to-complete

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Worker scanning cartons in a wholesale warehouse
Wholesale

Stock, purchasing and finance for a growing wholesaler

A growing wholesaler replaced spreadsheets and an old accounting package with Business Central, getting reliable stock levels, approved purchasing and a much lighter month-end.

250 suppliers on approved terms in one system

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Service engineer working on an industrial packaging machine
Manufacturing

Connected sales and service for an equipment manufacturer

An equipment manufacturer selling through distributors worldwide gave sales and service one customer view in Dynamics 365, with installed assets, order history and parts availability in every call.

9,000 machines linked to 1 customer record

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Consultants reviewing a project plan in a meeting room
Professional services

Project margin and billing for a global services firm

A professional services firm with several hundred consultants moved project plans, time, expenses, billing and revenue recognition onto Dynamics 365, seeing margin during delivery.

9 offices on 1 set of billing and revenue rules

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Pallets being loaded at a regional distribution warehouse
Distribution

Dynamics 365 finance and supply chain for a multi-country distributor

A distributor operating in several countries moved orders, stock, invoicing and consolidation onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 with a global template and local tax rules.

7 countries on 1 order-to-cash flow

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Rental depot yard with rows of construction machines
Equipment rental

Utilisation and maintenance for an equipment rental fleet

An equipment rental business with thousands of machines across depots brought assets, rental contracts and maintenance into Odoo, making utilisation visible and cutting breakdowns and billing errors.

6,000 machines loaded with verified maintenance history

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Agency team reviewing creative work around a studio table
Marketing agency

Job profitability during delivery for a multi-office agency

A marketing agency group with several offices brought timesheets, supplier costs and billing into Odoo, so profit by job is visible while the work is still under way.

4 offices on 1 job structure

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Operators inspecting prepared food on a production line
Food manufacturing

Lot traceability and yield control for a food producer

A two-plant food manufacturer linked ingredient lots to finished lots in Odoo, measured yield by batch and turned days of audit preparation into on-demand reports.

2 plants with ingredient-to-finished-lot genealogy

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Students walking across a school campus courtyard
Education

One back office for a multi-campus school group

A multi-campus school group replaced campus-by-campus admissions, fees and purchasing with one Odoo back office, tracking fee collection daily and reporting to leadership from one view.

5 campuses on 1 admissions and fees process

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Facilities technician checking equipment with a smartphone
Facility Management

Contracts, work orders and billing for a facilities provider

A facilities services provider with large field teams connected contracts, work orders, timesheets and billing in Odoo, so work done is invoiced and margin is visible by contract.

400 contracts cleaned up and migrated with clear terms

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Residential tower under construction with cranes at sunset
Real Estate Development

Bookings, instalments and project cost for a property developer

A developer running several residential and commercial projects moved unit bookings, instalment collections and contractor cost into Odoo, giving leadership one cash-flow view.

1 cash-flow view across every project

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Delivery truck being loaded in a building materials yard
Building Materials Trading

Credit control and delivery for a building materials trader

A building materials trader with its own fleet and thousands of contractor accounts put credit limits, multi-unit pricing and proof of delivery into one Odoo order flow.

5 branches working to 1 credit policy

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Worker scanning medicine cartons in a temperature-controlled warehouse
Pharma distribution

Batch, expiry and recall control for a healthcare distributor

A healthcare distributor with four temperature-controlled warehouses replaced manual batch tracking with Odoo lot control, expiry-led picking and recall reports that trace to customers in minutes.

4 warehouses temperature-controlled, on one system

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Sales assistant serving a customer at a store till
Retail

Sixty stores, one view: a retail group on a single Odoo platform

A multi-brand retail group with around sixty stores, a central warehouse and an online shop moved tills, stock, replenishment and ecommerce onto one Odoo platform.

60 stores reporting sales and margin every morning

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Operator checking a production order at a terminal on a manufacturing floor
Manufacturing

One Odoo platform for a five-plant manufacturer

A discrete manufacturer with five plants in three countries replaced plant spreadsheets and a separate accounting package with one Odoo platform for planning, costing and consolidation.

5 plants planning from one live plan

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