Case Study: Covers Timber & Builders Merchants achieves faster group consolidation and streamlined reporting with Jedox

Covers Timber & Builders Merchants - Customer Case Study

Covers is a family-run timber and building materials merchant with 13 branches across the South of England, over 160 years of trading and a product range of more than 23,000 lines as part of a wider group of 23 businesses. Their finance team struggled with a maze of linked spreadsheets and manual processes, making consolidated accounts, detailed sales reporting and the annual budget process slow, error-prone and hard to maintain across diverse company activities and multiple cost centres.

Implementing Jedox Premium gave Covers a multi‑cube planning and reporting platform that supports different company structures, detailed product hierarchies and both manual and automated data entry. The new cube-based reporting allows analysis from consolidated totals down to individual products, produces consolidated cash flows, balance sheets and P&L in under an hour, and centralises intercompany reconciliation — significantly cutting processing time and improving reporting agility.

Covers Timber & Builders Merchants

Martin Fitzpatrick

Financial Controller