Case Study · Industrial Services
Turner Industries Group
How a multi-billion dollar industrial services leader automated financial reporting and transformed their month-end close process with Cetova.
50%
faster close
Since 2006
Cetova customer
JD Edwards
ERP environment
The Challenge
Turner Industries Group is one of the largest industrial services companies in North America, providing construction, maintenance, turnaround, and fabrication services to the refining, petrochemical, chemical, and power industries. With thousands of employees across multiple locations, the finance team faced a familiar but critical problem: reporting that couldn't keep pace with the business.
Running JD Edwards as their core ERP, the team relied on a combination of built-in system reports, custom SQL queries, and extensive Excel-based processes to produce the financial statements, management reports, and variance analyses that leadership needed each month.
The manual processes were time-consuming and error-prone. Report logic lived in spreadsheets maintained by a handful of people. Reconciliation consumed hours every close cycle. And when leadership asked ad-hoc questions, the team often had to rebuild reports from scratch — pulling data, reformatting, and cross-checking against JD Edwards to ensure accuracy.
The finance team needed a reporting platform that understood JD Edwards' data structures — Julian dates, data dictionary, hierarchies, and security — without requiring IT involvement for every reporting change.
The Solution
Turner Industries implemented Cetova's reporting suite, starting with C-FAR for governed financial reporting and C-QRY for ad-hoc transactional inquiry. The implementation was completed quickly — with Cetova's native JD Edwards support, the platform handled the complexity that had previously required manual workarounds.
Key elements of the solution included:
- Automated financial statements and management reports — replacing spreadsheet-based processes with governed, repeatable reporting that runs directly against JD Edwards.
- Variance analysis across actuals, budget, and prior periods — giving leadership clear explanations of what changed and why, without manual calculations.
- Governed ad-hoc inquiry — allowing the team to answer "what happened?" questions by drilling into transactional detail without dumping data to Excel.
- Automated scheduling and distribution — reports that previously required manual production and email distribution now run and deliver automatically.
Because Cetova natively understands JD Edwards' data dictionary, Julian dates, hierarchies, and security model, the finance team didn't need to build translation layers or maintain custom logic outside the platform.
The Results
Since implementing Cetova in 2006, Turner Industries has transformed their financial reporting process. The results have been sustained over nearly two decades of use:
50% faster month-end close
Automated reporting eliminated hours of manual work each close cycle, allowing the team to deliver results to leadership faster.
Dramatically fewer reporting errors
Governed reporting with consistent definitions and calculations replaced spreadsheet logic that was prone to formula errors and version conflicts.
Reduced IT dependency
The finance team gained independence to create, modify, and distribute reports without submitting IT tickets or waiting for developer resources.
Long-term platform reliability
Nearly 20 years of continuous use — Cetova has remained the backbone of Turner Industries' accounting and reporting operations.
"Cetova has been the backbone of our accounting efforts since 2006. I'm blown away by how much time we've saved through automation."
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