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India Dev CentreA Danish manufacturing group operating four branches was running two different accounting packages, with group figures assembled by hand each reporting period and intercompany balances that rarely agreed. Denmark's digital bookkeeping requirements turned a deferred IT decision into a compliance deadline. PapaSiddhi consolidated all four branches onto a single Business Central tenant.
All four branches went live in approximately four months with a small dedicated team, ahead of the compliance deadline.
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Two accounting packages reconciled by hand → One tenant with automated intercompany and live consolidation
Denmark Delivery
Delivered for a Denmark-based Manufacturing client
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Industry
Manufacturing
Sector
Multi-Branch Group Finance Consolidation
Region
Denmark
Project Type
Fixed Price
Nor***** A/S is a Danish manufacturing group operating four branches, each with its own production and customer base but reporting into a common group structure. Over time the branches had settled on two different accounting packages, an arrangement that worked locally but made group-level finance laborious. Among its customers are public sector organisations, which in Denmark expect to receive invoices electronically through the NemHandel infrastructure.
As a group of companies under common control, the business carries statutory obligations that go beyond those of a single company, including mandatory national joint taxation. The finance team is small and had already lived through one unsuccessful ERP implementation, so appetite for another project was limited. What changed the equation was regulation: updated requirements under the Danish Bookkeeping Act turned a long-postponed systems decision into a deadline the group had to meet.
This project was delivered under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. The client operates in the Manufacturing sector (Multi-Branch Group Finance Consolidation) and is based in Denmark.
The immediate driver was the Bookkeeping Act (Bogføringsloven), which requires businesses to use a digital bookkeeping system that meets specified requirements, including provisions on transaction registration and automated backup. The group's existing arrangement was not merely inefficient; it was drifting towards non-compliance, and a fix was needed before the deadline. Compliance could not be achieved by documenting old habits more carefully; it required a platform whose design satisfied the digital requirements by default.
The operational burden ran deeper. With four branches on two packages and different charts of accounts, group figures were produced by exporting each branch into spreadsheets and reconciling manually, absorbing much of the finance team's time in every reporting cycle. Intercompany transactions were recorded independently by each branch and frequently disagreed, so every close began with detective work. Joint taxation reporting drawn from that fragmented picture carried real risk of error.
Public sector invoicing added friction too, because NemHandel e-invoices were being produced through a manual workaround at each branch. Given the earlier failed implementation, the finance team needed a project that was disciplined, well governed and supported through go-live, not one that left them to absorb the disruption alone. Clear decisions, early agreement on structure and honest reconciliation of historical figures were as important to them as the software itself.
Two accounting packages reconciled by hand
One tenant with automated intercompany and live consolidation
PapaSiddhi consolidated all four branches onto a single Microsoft Business Central tenant on Azure. The pivotal decision was agreeing a standardised group-wide chart of accounts with consistent branch dimensions before configuration began, because letting each branch keep its existing structure would simply have recreated the consolidation problem inside the new ERP. Intercompany transactions were automated so a posting at one branch generates its counterpart at the other, and a dedicated consolidation company produces group figures from live ledgers.
The Danish localisation handles moms (VAT) and statutory reporting, while NemHandel e-invoicing was configured to run automatically at every branch, replacing the manual workarounds. The system was set up explicitly against the Bookkeeping Act's digital requirements, including transaction registration and backup provisions, so compliance is built into the platform rather than inferred from older practices. Joint taxation reporting draws on the standardised dimensions, with Power BI available for management analysis and Business Central extensions written in AL where the standard product needed tailoring.
Delivery was structured to rebuild the finance team's confidence. Historical data for all four branches was migrated and opening balances reconciled before go-live. A parallel reporting period then allowed figures from the old and new systems to be compared, followed by a month of hypercare in which the team had direct support while closing on Business Central for the first time.
All four branches went live in approximately four months with a small dedicated team, ahead of the compliance deadline. Group consolidation that had absorbed the finance team for much of every reporting cycle now completes in a fraction of the time from live data. Intercompany balances reconcile automatically rather than requiring investigation at each close, which removed the single most frustrating part of the finance team's month. NemHandel invoicing to public sector customers runs automatically at every branch. Digital bookkeeping obligations are satisfied by a system configured for them, and the group now has a standardised finance platform that a fifth branch could join without redesign. The finance team closes without the overtime that consolidation previously required.
Transformation Summary
Two accounting packages reconciled by hand → One tenant with automated intercompany and live consolidation
This project was delivered under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Specific client details, business data, proprietary workflows, and project credentials remain confidential. Screenshots and live URLs are available upon mutual NDA execution.
Request an NDA to see full detailsIt gives you a system capable of meeting the requirements, but compliance comes from how it is configured — transaction registration and backup provisions have to be set up deliberately and evidenced. We configured explicitly against those requirements so compliance is a property of the system rather than an interpretation of an older setup.
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