Case Study: The Wildlife Gallery achieves a 50% reduction in annual budgeting time with Centage's Planning Maestro

Seamless Integration & Improved Personnel Planning Cuts Annual Budgeting Process Time in Half

The Wildlife Gallery, the largest tannery serving the U.S. taxidermy industry with 145 employees across six locations, faced a time-consuming, error-prone annual budgeting process. CFO Nate Walters found spreadsheets and their ERP (NetSuite) lacked necessary budgeting functionality, forcing manual consolidation, repeated data entry and cumbersome year-over-year updates.

The company implemented Centage’s Planning Maestro, a NetSuite-integrated, driver-based budgeting solution with built-in accounting rules and detailed personnel planning. The automated imports of GL data and Chart of Accounts, prebuilt formulas and easy payroll adjustments cut the annual budgeting cycle in half—bringing the process down to about a month—while reducing data-entry errors and simplifying future budget updates.

The Wildlife Gallery

Nate Walters

CFO