JEDOX SUCCESS STORY · MANUFACTURING
Unified, future-ready data strategy reduces close from 3 weeks to 7 days
Con Forms is a North American maker of concrete line pumping and placing equipment with more than 50 years of experience. By centralising data from three ERP systems in Snowflake and connecting it to Jedox, the company cut its financial close from three weeks to seven days.
3 weeks to 7 days
financial close time
30 seconds
monthly data refresh
3
ERP systems unified
About Construction Forms
Construction Forms, Inc. (Con Forms) is a North American maker of concrete line pumping and placing equipment with more than 50 years of experience. It controls production end to end, from design and steel sourcing to final inspection. Con Forms runs ERP systems in the US, Germany and India, acquired Tricon in 2023 and is a founding member of the American Concrete Pumping Association.
Challenge
Three ERPs, three-week closes
Con Forms controls production end to end, from design and steel sourcing through robotic and hand welding to final inspection. It is a founding member of the American Concrete Pumping Association and the Concrete Pump Manufacturers Association.
Disconnected ERP systems across the US, Germany and India limited scalability and visibility. Reports were compiled manually in spreadsheets from high-level general ledger data, and the 2023 acquisition of Tricon added a third ERP. Financial closes took up to three weeks.
Solution
Snowflake and Jedox as one source
Con Forms centralised ERP ledger and transactional data in a Snowflake data warehouse integrated with Jedox, creating a single source of truth for planning, reporting and analytics.
Non-finance teams in operations, commercial and HR now take part in planning through driver-based templates that draw on inputs such as payroll hours, headcount and shipping projections. The monthly data refresh takes just 30 seconds.
“Jedox freed us up to spend more time on analysis and less time on report building.”
Kevin Griffin
Director of FP&A
Construction Forms
Outcome
Financial close cut to 7 days
The financial close has dropped from three weeks to seven days. Controllers receive pre-built variance and trend reports, and external stakeholders such as board analysts and private equity firms can access reports securely in real time.
Future acquisitions’ ERPs can be connected via Snowflake and mapped to Jedox without migrations. The company now plans to explore AI forecasting.
Jedox in use at Construction Forms
- Planning
- Reporting
- Analytics
- Driver-based planning templates
- Snowflake integration
- ERP integration
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