JEDOX SUCCESS STORY · AUTOMOTIVE
Adaptability fuels rapid growth and scalable M&A success
America’s Auto Auction, a leading US automotive remarketing company, moved planning and reporting from Excel to Jedox. With data flowing from Microsoft Business Central every four hours, finance can answer leadership questions quickly and onboard acquired auction sites with far less effort.
4 hours
automatic data refresh from Business Central
5
acquisitions completed in 2023
40+
auction locations supported
About America’s Auto Auction
America’s Auto Auction is a leading US automotive remarketing company. It connects vehicle buyers and sellers through more than 40 auction locations, six mobile auctions and digital multi-seller platforms. It also provides transportation, vehicle inspection, title and payment processing and floorplan financing, and runs Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as its ERP.
Challenge
Hours of manual Excel work
America’s Auto Auction connects vehicle buyers and sellers through more than 40 auction locations, six mobile auctions and digital multi-seller platforms, and also provides transportation, vehicle inspection, title and payment processing and floorplan financing.
Planning and reporting relied on Excel. Ad hoc requests from leadership took hours of manual work and carried a high risk of error, and the profit and loss analysis lacked flexibility. This slowed planning just as the company was growing by acquisition and needed to absorb new auction sites.
Solution
Automatic data every four hours
The company chose Jedox for its integration with existing systems and its data security. Data now moves automatically from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, via a Microsoft SQL database, into Jedox every four hours, replacing manually updated spreadsheets and giving near real-time access to current figures.
Jedox provides a single source of truth for P&L reporting and supports more frequent reporting cycles.
“Whereas now, utilizing Jedox for our reporting, we’ve been able to set up more frequent cadences.”
Sierra Pennington
Financial Analyst
Outcome
Five acquisitions, nearly automated onboarding
Finance can now answer questions from leadership and sales quickly, analyse individual accounts such as year-on-year third-party labour costs, and automate recurring monthly reports.
The company completed five acquisitions in 2023, and in 2024 Jedox helped manage the complexities of mergers and acquisitions, with onboarding of new sites becoming nearly automated. America’s Auto Auction plans to expand its use of Jedox AIssisted planning.
Jedox in use at America’s Auto Auction
- Planning and reporting
- P&L reporting
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integration
- Microsoft SQL integration
- AIssisted planning (planned)
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