Case Study: SonoSite achieves 50% faster budgeting and $81,200 annual savings with Prophix Software

An Inside Look at SonoSite’s Office of Finance

SonoSite, a global leader in point-of-care ultrasound, was growing nearly 40% annually but relied on spreadsheet- and email-driven budgeting that was slow, error-prone and hard to control. Fragmented data, versioning issues and lengthy error-tracing meant budgeting was time-consuming—taking up to five months—and sometimes left updates incomplete.

SonoSite implemented Prophix’s CPM software, merging budget and actuals within days and building a new planning model that saved 37 labor hours ($1,850) per model. With at least monthly models, Prophix delivered total annual savings of 1,624 hours and $81,200, cut the budgeting cycle to 2.5 months, enabled full-budget audits in 2–3 hours and cost-center reviews in 10–15 minutes, and simplified international consolidation and forecasting.

SonoSite

Jeff Markwood

Budget Manager