Rehrig Pacific - RapidReconciler

About the Client

As an authority on sustainable supply chain solutions, Rehrig Pacific leverages that expertise to help consumer packaged goods (CPG), dairy, beverage, waste management, agricultural and e-commerce companies manage their end-to-end supply chains. Founded in 1913, Rehrig Pacific is the nation’s leading supplier of residential rollout carts. It also produces specialized products based on its in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of waste hauling and recycling management.

Challenges the Client Faced

Soon after implementing Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP system a couple of years ago, Rehrig Pacific immediately faced major challenges. With seven manufacturing plants processing a high volume of transactions, the company found itself inundated with an extremely high volume of inventory, shipment, and purchase data across its operations. “We’re talking hundreds of thousands of lines of data every month,” said Eric Wilson, Controller. “Reconciling inventory ledger activity versus the general ledger (GL) was difficult in JD Edwards —so much so that the GL was always out of sync with the inventory ledger.” Time-consuming and resource-intensive, rectifying the problem required so much manual work that it would often take up to two weeks to get the inventory ledger and GL activity aligned. “Sometimes, we’d have to get experts in to help us sift through the data,” said Wilson.

GSI's Solution

For help, Rehrig Pacific turned to its JDE support partner, GSI, Inc. “We had enlisted a developer to help us sort through the tables and data,” Wilson said.“GSI’s RapidReconciler solution was suggested to us as a solution that might be able to automate some of the work that we were managing.”Using RapidReconciler, Rehrig Pacific has automated the process of matching its inventory ledger and GL, and can now easily detect any abnormalities or “suspicious” transactions that require further attention. It gets detailed reports on those abnormalities and can easily see what’s causing the issue (and, subsequently, fix the problem).