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Johnny's Selected Seeds - UNITED STATES

Johnny's Selected Seeds reaps long-term rewards with Sage Intacct

Employee-owned seed producer and merchant gains real time insights and streamlines accounts payable process with Sage Intacct.
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A finance system capable of complexity

With up to 15,000 different SKUs and a wide-ranging customer base, Johnny’s Selected Seeds needed a finance system that could handle the information and complexity from its research and development side of the business as well as the distribution, inventory, sales, and finance aspects of the company. Sage Intacct ticked all the right boxes.

I'm always telling my team, 'Work smarter, not harder'. We were issuing a lot of paper checks, we used to do 75% checks, 25% electronic: now we're the exact opposite.

Michelle Pyle
Director of Finance

Smart automation makes accounts payable a dream

Sage Intacct's sophisticated accounts payable (AP) automation has taken away a lot of manual work for the finance team, meaning that they only need to do a simple review of the information in the system as the system can automatically recognize a specific vendor or supplier and knows where to put the data.

With Sage Intacct managers can now get timely information and access information themselves, whereas it used to take us hours of reconfiguring spreadsheets.

Michelle Pyle
Director of Finance

Real time information at their fingertips

Bringing a new product to market can take up to three years (10 if it's a totally new plant variety), so anything that helps speed up the process is a huge win. With Sage Intacct, Johnny's Lauren Giroux says she can now know at any given moment whether there is enough money to take advantage of the next opportunity or double down to bring a product to market faster.

Anything that reduces my time trying to navigate paperwork so I can spend time in the field understanding the products is really important.

Lauren Giroux
Director of Product Selection and Trialing

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