Manufacturing: From Jet Reports to One Governed Model

The Client

A multinational manufacturing firm runs its business on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with production, inventory, and finance each generating their own stream of data

The Challenge

Financial reporting ran through Jet Reports and Excel. Every month meant hours of reconciliation across workbooks, and board reporting took days to assemble. Different teams brought different versions of the same figure to the same meeting

The Solution

Elara evolved the Jet Reports stack into a unified data and analytics system on Microsoft Fabric, consolidating Business Central data into one governed model. On top of it: an executive reporting suite in Power BI, led by board ready financial statements, refreshed daily

The reporting suite covers financial performance by entity and department, production and inventory visibility, and margin by product, with drill through from the executive page to transaction level detail

Technology Used

The Results

The dashboards are accurate, save hours of reconciliation every month, and changed how financials are presented to the board and leadership team. Finance stopped rebuilding workbooks, and every department argues from the same numbers

“We replaced JET Reports entirely and have never looked back. The dashboards they built are accurate, have saved hours of reconciliation every month, and significantly changed how we present financials to our board and leadership team.”

CFO, Multinational Manufacturing Firm