How Huntapac Produce reduced reporting time by 63% with Sage Intacct

Huntapac reduced month-end reporting time by 63% and unlocked real-time financial visibility using Sage Intacct. 

In this customer story, the team shares how they:

✅ Reduced reporting time from 27 days to 10

✅ Improved real-time financial visibility

✅ Streamlined manual finance processes

✅ Enabled faster business decision-making

 

 

Watch the video to hear the full story

About Huntapac

Huntapac operates across the fresh produce supply chain, delivering products from field to fork for major UK retailers. With growing operational complexity and increasing reporting demands, the business needed a more agile and data-driven finance system. 

The challenge

Managing finance across a fast-moving agricultural business created increasing pressure on the finance team. Manual processes slowed month-end reporting, reducing visibility into performance and making it difficult to respond quickly to operational changes.

As Huntapac continued to grow, reporting demands increased significantly over a seven-year period, making it harder to analyse data and keep pace with business complexity.

To keep up with this growth, the team needed a modern cloud-based finance solution that could improve reporting speed, increase accuracy, and provide real-time financial insight.

To support this growth, Huntapac implemented Sage Intacct to modernise financial reporting and enable real-time decision-making. 

Future-proofing finance with CPiO

With expertise in supporting finance transformations across the food and beverage sector, CPiO was the ideal partner for Huntapac. By taking time to understand the business’s pain points in detail, CPiO ensured a smooth migration to Sage Intacct with long-term scalability in mind.

Driving efficiency through automation 

After implementing Sage Intacct, the finance team transformed its day-to-day operations.

Reporting processes that previously took more than 27 days can now be completed in just 10 days, significantly reducing administrative workload and improving efficiency across the department.

By automating manual finance tasks, the team gained more time to focus on strategic planning and business performance.

“CPiO helped us move reporting forward across the business, reducing month-end reporting from 27+ days to just 10. We are now able to make better decisions based on what's actually happening in the current month, and it's made  a massive impact day-to-day at month end. ”

Racheal Howard

Financial Controller, Huntapac Produce Ltd

Unlocking real-time financial visibility 

The biggest improvement wasn’t just speed — it was visibility.

With access to accurate, real-time financial data, the team can now make decisions based on current business performance rather than outdated monthly reports.

That means when month-end arrives, the finance team is already prepared with up-to-date insights and cleaner reporting processes. This shift means finance is no longer reporting on history — but actively shaping current business performance. 

Building a future-ready finance function 

Innovation remains central to the company’s culture.

The finance team continues to explore new technologies and processes that help the business stay agile in an industry that faces constant operational and market challenges.

With stronger financial visibility and streamlined reporting, the business is better equipped to adapt and scale confidently.

Key outcomes

•  63% faster reporting cycles 
•  Real-time financial visibility enabling better decisions
•  Significant reduction in manual processes through automation
•  Finance team repositioned as a strategic function and less operational 
•  Improved business agility