Case Study: 1st Light Energy achieves significant COGS reduction in 10 months with Rootstock Cloud ERP

1st Light Energy - Customer Case Study

1st Light Energy is a fast-growing, coast-to-coast solar installer with thousands of residential, commercial and public-sector installations. As revenue and multi-site operations expanded, their Salesforce front end + QuickBooks back end created heavy manual work, duplicated data entry, and growing headcount to maintain accounting, purchasing and inventory — limiting visibility into sales, job costing and supply chain.

They implemented Rootstock Cloud ERP on the Force.com platform (integrated with FinancialForce and Sales Cloud) in under 12 weeks, deploying MRP, purchase order and project control modules and custom automations that cut routine processes from minutes to seconds. The integrated cloud solution centralized inventory, purchasing and project costing, delivering deeper operational insight, reduced IT overhead, significantly lower COGS in 10 months and rapid revenue/profit growth (including doubling the business over a year).

1st Light Energy

Trey Lackey

VP of Operations & IT / COO