Case Study: Lafarge North America cuts data extraction from 20 days to hours and secures compliance with ACL Analytics Exchange (ACL)

Lafarge Streamlines Complex Data Extraction and Analysis with ACL™ Analytics Exchange

Lafarge North America, a leading supplier of construction materials operating from 3,500 locations with over $4 billion in annual revenue, faced a complex data challenge: its processing environment produced more than 120 million GL transactions a year and, despite a unified ERP rollout, critical audit, tax and regulatory reporting still relied on disparate legacy systems and archived data. Delivering encrypted extracts to off‑site auditors and authorities required costly, time‑consuming courier shipments that exposed the company to compliance, security and efficiency risks.

Lafarge implemented ACL Analytics Exchange with ACL professional services and training to automate extraction, standardize formats, schedule off‑peak pulls and provide a secure repository for reuse. The solution cut extraction times from up to 20 days to several hours, eliminated physical file shipments, reduced non‑compliance risk and travel costs, freed IT resources, enabled faster ad‑hoc and scheduled reporting, and delivered a clear return on investment with plans to expand analytic and compliance use across the business.

Lafarge

Gerrit Buitendag

Director of Accounting