Three distributors, three different starting points, one shared result: the financial close now runs inside CloudSuite Distribution, on the Birst analytics engine every tenant already has. An HVAC distributor cut its monthly close from over a week to a day after dropping F9. An industrial distributor moved off A+'s bare account summaries to statements that match, period for period, back to January 2020. The Bolt Supply House now runs branch-level financials with each manager seeing only their own numbers, and is on its way to retiring F9.

Ching Cooper, who leads Dragon Pack Financials, covers what ships out of the box — variance reporting, mapping reports that catch unmapped accounts before they hit a statement, and a data refresh finance runs itself in minutes — plus what these teams added on top: multiple statement views, branch metrics tied to the GL, and a P&L forecast from the same ledger. The session closes with an M3 roadmap update, following up on the October 9 Hercules Industries session.

Who should attend: CFOs, controllers, and finance/IT leaders on Infor CSD, SX.e, or M3 still closing in F9 or spreadsheets.