Case Study: Four Star Freightliner achieves faster budgeting and strategic quarterly reforecasting with Centage

Faster Budgeting and Quarterly Reforecasting Leads to More Strategic Planning

Four Star Freightliner is a multi-location Freightliner dealership with seven locations across Alabama, Georgia and Florida, four lines of business (new and used truck sales, parts and services) and roughly 190 employees. The finance team relied on cumbersome Excel-based budgeting that took two months to build (plus a week of manual ERP entry), made personnel and location-level forecasting difficult amid rapid growth, and left the company unable to run timely reforecasts or accurate what-if analyses.

After evaluating vendors, Four Star implemented Centage’s budgeting platform, which brought pre-built accounting logic, an employee-level personnel module, and ad hoc reporting and dashboards. Budget creation dropped to about two weeks, quarterly reforecasting became routine, and management shifted from debating static numbers to strategic planning—using faster comparison of actuals to plan and scenario analysis to guide decisions.

Four Star Freightliner

Scott Coleson

Controller