Case Study: Anthony Forest Products achieves real-time inventory visibility and a three-day month-end close with Epicor LumberTrack

Anthony Forest Products - Customer Case Study

Anthony Forest Products, a seven-location integrated Southern Yellow Pine producer based in El Dorado, Arkansas, struggled with limited inventory visibility, lengthy month-end closes and manual, time-consuming inventory and production processes across sawmills, laminating plants and an I-joist facility. Without real-time data, managers spent hours reconciling counts, optimizing schedules in the dark, and coping with stale or damaged inventory and slow financial reporting.

By deploying LumberTrack (with FiberTrack and MS Dynamics GP), tagging inventory at key stages and using handheld scanners, the company consolidated data and automated reporting. The change cut month-end close to three days, reduced physical inventory time by 75%, sped production planning by 80% (saving 6–8 hours/week), improved inventory accuracy and turnover (enabling pre-sales), simplified audits and freed staff for higher-value work.

Anthony Forest Products

Chantle Selman

Controller, Anthony Forest Products