Customer story · DUCAJU
DUCAJU unifies its group with EMASPHERE
Since 1729, DUCAJU has produced high-end and retail packaging, stationery and presentation materials. The family group of three operating companies now consolidates its entities in EMASPHERE, with reliable data available at all times.
About DUCAJU
The company was founded by the Du Caju family and is now led by the eighth generation, in the person of Tom Du Caju, who continues an unbroken line of fathers passing the business on to their sons. DUCAJU brings together three companies, spread across three sites.
Geert Casselman has been on board since 1997. He started as CEO of BDMO before becoming Group CFO in 2018, when the three companies merged. In Meulebeke, West Flanders, the core business is high-end packaging production. In Wielsbeke, the focus is on all kinds of stationery (such as custom ring binders and textile sample cards) and presentation materials. In Erpe-Mere, the company produces retail packaging.
All things digital
In the long term, DUCAJU wants to pursue a healthy growth strategy in which financial, production, purchasing and HR key performance indicators (KPIs) play an important role. Geert explains that digitalization is central to the company’s priorities, and COVID-19 accelerated it significantly: “From next year, files without digital invoices will no longer be used. That makes working from home easier. No paperwork circulating in production: everything is digital.”
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Our accountants used to get stuck in their work a lot. Now they can handle it easily and even take on extra work. EMASPHERE has brought much more peace of mind and eased the pressure we had until then.
Geert Casselman
Group CFO · DUCAJU
Automatic, systematic consolidations
The group has six companies in total: the DUCAJU holding, three operating companies and two other companies. Producing proper reports can be very complex and time-consuming when consolidation is done manually in Excel. For Geert, it is important that the three operating companies are aligned and compared correctly. “That’s why we need a tool that can do this easily and automatically,” he says.
EMASPHERE lets DUCAJU run consolidations flexibly. “Our data is always available too, and everything is simply automated.” This is also the first year that the three companies keep their accounts in the same way.
“If something isn’t entered correctly, we spot it very quickly. And EMASPHERE lets us correct it systematically and fast,” explains Geert. “In the past, that could take months.”
Reliable information
The information also has to be reliable: “We don’t want to compare apples and oranges. EMASPHERE has proven that its performance management tool produces correct consolidated reports,” Geert stresses.
Data available at all times
On top of automatic consolidations, the data can be refreshed at any time, which is very valuable for the company. Daily data loads take no time at all.
“EMASPHERE is a user-friendly tool that frees us from everything we used to do inefficiently.”
The data is always available, which brings security and flexibility. “To share information with external readers, such as the bank, we can now simply pull the reports we need from the tool. Fantastic, isn’t it?” Geert says with a smile. The same goes for sharing reports internally with management.
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