Case study · Food production and exports
From €3M to €20M in revenue, with the same team size.
An internationally exporting cheese producer has run Nebulas ERP since 2016. Credit control, invoicing, export requirements and shipping were brought into one operating flow that supported higher volume without expanding headcount.
Anonymous case study · Data and results supplied by the projectThe setting
A cheese producer selling into international markets.
Every sale connects commercial terms, customer risk, fiscal documents, export rules and physical delivery. As volumes increased, those activities had to remain manageable for the same administrative team.
- 2016
- Nebulas ERP adopted
- Export
- international sales footprint
- 4
- connected core workflows
The operating challenge
More orders without multiplying administrative work.
Moving from €3M to €20M in revenue means handling more customers, financial exposure, documents to issue, tax checks and shipments. If each increase in volume had required the same increase in manual activity, headcount would have needed to grow as well.
The process had to keep exceptions visible: a customer over their credit limit, an invoice still to generate, an invalid declaration of intent or a shipment missing required references. Every control needed to use the same commercial data.
Nebulas ERP
Four workflows configured around the same sale.
The ERP source confirms that credit, documents, fiscal requirements and shipping share data and operational steps, reducing repeated checks.
Credit control
The team can see exposure, overdue and unpaid amounts and the approved credit limit; a warning appears when a sale exceeds the configured limit.
Automated invoicing
Billable documents can be selected in bulk, grouped by customer and currency, and converted into invoices with numbering, payment schedules and accounting records linked.
Exports and declarations of intent
The system checks year, status, protocol and remaining VAT plafond, applies fiscal references to eligible lines and flags inconsistencies or excess use.
Shipping management
Customer, carrier, documents, tracking, preparation date and dispatch status remain in the same operational record.
The configured workflow
From order to dispatch, with one continuous set of data.
Each stage prepares the next while keeping checks, documents and ownership visible.
- 01
Order
Customer, terms and products start the commercial cycle.
- 02
Credit
Exposure, overdue balances and credit limit are checked before proceeding.
- 03
Invoicing
Eligible documents move into bulk invoice generation.
- 04
Export compliance
Declaration of intent, plafond and VAT treatment are validated.
- 05
Shipping
Documents, carrier, tracking and status accompany the goods.
What stayed connected
One sale, one chain of operational information.
The ERP retains each operational reference throughout the process, so additional volume does not create parallel records or disconnected checks.
- Customer, credit limit, exposure and unpaid due dates
- Orders, delivery documents, invoices, payments and accounting records
- Declarations of intent, protocol, plafond and VAT treatment
- Shipping documents, carrier, tracking and status
The result
The same headcount supported 6.7 times the revenue.
Nebulas ERP has been in use since 2016. Since then, the company’s annual revenue has risen from €3M to €20M while staff size remained unchanged. The configured workflows gave the same team the operating capacity to manage a much larger scale.
Annual revenue
From €3M to €20M
Headcount growth
Team size remained unchanged
Nebulas ERP introduced
In use throughout the growth period
The financial and staffing figures were supplied by project stakeholders. They describe the company’s growth while using Nebulas ERP and do not attribute the entire revenue increase to the ERP alone. The customer’s identity remains confidential.
Growing too?
More revenue should not require the same increase in administration.
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