One of the UK’s leading exporters of food and drink produce Smylie’s’ supplies to some of the world’s leading retailers. An award-winning export company, Smylies works with multiple highly recognised brands including Burton’s Biscuits, known for several well-loved brands such as Jammie Dodger biscuits.
A truly international process, Smylie’s’ export solutions cover more than 50countries worldwide. Smylies specialise in providing temperature-controlled shipments to ensure produce is kept in optimum conditions.
Due to Smylies working internationally raised multiple challenges for them when it came to managing different customs and currencies. Making their key objective to have a system that will allow them to automatically consolidation and process multiple currencies without the risk of errors. Whilst also reducing the legislative burden and help manage international taxation requirements.
Smylies were additionally looking for a quick and smooth transition to an accounting system which would give them wider reporting capabilities. Allowing them to produce real-time business insights.
Making the switch to FinancialForce’s cloud system has vastly improved Smylies efficiency and financial reporting capabilities.
The ability to report and invoice in multiple currencies has saved vast amount of times and improved financial visibility across the different regions. As a cloud system, FinancialForce automatically updates international legislative requirements, meaning that the Smylies team has full confidence that they are always fully compliant.