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Ryman handles the building of its villages itself, making it New Zealand’s third largest builder of residential houses, currently building about 550 new units or rest home beds per annum in New Zealand. The company is vertically integrated with almost no outsourced work, and it’s this integration that create complexities. Ryman is made up of 30 companies employing numerous construction sub-contractors and suppliers.

“We didn’t have a very good financial system, let alone anything else around it,” says Simon Challies, CEO. “We were running the ledgers in spreadsheets, there was no supply ledger, and the cashbook system was linked to our billing system and was relatively basic.” Ryman was effectively running 10 different supply ledgers, which it then had to consolidate manually.

Even after a decade and half using MYOB Greentree, Ryman Healthcare’s needs are still being met as the ERP software has adapted with the company, throughout its growth. It handles all the financial reports on the villages, as well as management reports, construction reporting on every current job, along with all the supply payments, purchasing and subcontractor reporting.

“MYOB Greentree F.R.E.E. (Financial Reporting Engine in Excel) delivers solid reporting because everything is integrated, which means major savings in administration,” says Challies. “If we didn’t have some of those features tightly integrated, we’d need another five full-time people.”