Case Study: Thomas Tyres achieves faster, forward-looking financial insights with Phocas

Thomas Tyres increases productivity and make better decisions with Phocas Analytics and Phocas Financial Statements

Thomas Tyres, a South African tyre and automotive parts business with dozens of branches and thousands of SKUs, was struggling with fragile spreadsheets, single-user reporting limits, and time-consuming SQL searches to answer questions about inventory, operations, and finance. The company needed a more reliable way to access and share data, and Phocas Analytics and Financial Statements were introduced as a single solution to replace manual, outdated reporting.

Phocas helped Thomas Tyres build a tailored reporting and financial planning setup with integrated dashboards, budgeting tools, and consolidated financial statements. The result was faster decision-making, with queries that once took a week reduced to 15 minutes, 25% less time spent on research, and better visibility for monthly management meetings and forward planning. Thomas Tyres also reported that the system paid back within about six months and is now expanding use across the business.

Thomas Tyres

Pierre van Zyl

Project Manager