Monday 30th November, 2015

Bon Bons, one of UK’s largest hand packer of luxury confectioners has selected Advanced to provide Exchequer software. The company supplies luxury sweets and chocolates to the country’s top garden centres, delicatessens, farm shops and visitor attractions, including the Tower of London and London Zoo.

Mark Rowntree, Managing Director, Bon Bons, says, "Our previous accounting system was no longer fit for purpose and we need a solution that reflects the business we are today – the largest in our sector – and that will support our plans for continued double digit growth and diversification."

"The business is currently managed on a series of incredibly large spreadsheets. With Advanced’s software we can bring all that information together online to access data that we couldn’t before, which will generate timely, meaningful and accurate reports."

The software will be used by sales and purchasing staff in the office and operations employees in the warehouse.

For the first time, the location of items in the warehouse will be accessible online as well as the bill of materials, which automatically details the stock level of the component parts of each product when an order is received. This also enables staff to systematically track batches of bulk products which supports compliance with regulations.

Purchase orders will be processed electronically rather than manually. Management reports will be based on live information and automatically generated as graphical dashboards at the click of a button.

The company will go live with the accounting software in January 2016.