Case Study: Jabil achieves a continuous, time‑saving financial close with Redwood Software

Achieving the continuous close at global manufacturing services firm

Jabil, a global manufacturing services firm with 100 sites in 30 countries, needed to improve the speed, efficiency and accuracy of its record-to-report (R2R) activities. A time study found heavy reliance on manual, spreadsheet-based work, inconsistent processes across sites and a costly, audit‑unfriendly balance sheet certification step that threatened month‑end close deadlines.

Jabil implemented Redwood’s Finance Automation (integrated with SAP) to standardize and automate balance sheet certification, giving preparers and approvers a single system and audit‑ready access to consolidated data. The automation eliminated repetitive tasks, improved data quality and consistency, and saved about five hours per company code in the close—freeing finance staff for analysis and lowering potential audit costs—while Jabil moves to extend automation to journal entries, intercompany and the full close.

Jabil

Scott Barone

Director of the Finance Digital PMO