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Case Study
How Overland Group unified pork production across 7 entities
At a Glance
- Farms
- Abattoir processing
- Retail
- Online sales
- Dardanup Butchering Company
Overland Group is a Western Australian agribusiness that brings together Westpork, the state's largest pork producer, and Dardanup Butchering Company, its largest multi-species meat processor. The group runs its own pig farms and a processing plant at Picton, alongside retail stores and online sales.
Food and beverage manufacturing, vertically integrated pork production
Western Australia
6 to 7 legal entities under one group
NetSuite OneWorld, implemented by DWR
Key Results
60%
faster month-end close, across all 6 to 7 entities
40%
improvement in overall finance team productivity
Instant
consolidated board reporting, across all 6 to 7 entities
The Challenge
Legacy software, a burnt out finance team
- Attache
- Sybiz
- 80% productivity lost to manual workarounds
- Up to 5 days to consolidate
Underneath its scale, the finance team was running on 2 on premise platforms, Attache and Sybiz, that had seen little recent investment and were built for a business a fraction of Overland Group's current size. Neither platform could support Overland Group's push toward digital modernisation.
The finance team filled the gap with manual workarounds and spreadsheets. Time spent reconciling and re-keying data was time the team couldn't spend on analysis, so reporting arrived late and gave leadership less visibility into where to optimise. Manual processes also meant heavy quality control, just to catch errors that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
The cost of the old systems
80%
DWR's discovery process found the manual workarounds were costing Overland Group around 80% of the finance team's potential productivity.
There was a talent problem too: so few finance professionals still had experience with Attache or Sybiz that Overland Group struggled to recruit the skilled staff it needed to run the old systems, let alone grow past them.
The Solution
1 chart of accounts, 2 systems retired
DWR's answer was a single platform that unified Overland Group's multi-entity financial management, replacing 2 disconnected systems with one foundation the business could build on. NetSuite OneWorld gave Overland Group a single, unified chart of accounts across all legal entities and automated intercompany management that previously ran through manual reconciliation.
NetSuite ERP core implementation
DWR delivered the implementation on time and on budget, despite the pressure of consolidating 6 to 7 entities running on 2 incompatible legacy systems.
The Impact
A finance team freed up for analysis
The NetSuite implementation shifted Overland Group's finance team from transactional book closers into strategic, data driven business partners. The 40% productivity gain is the other side of the 80% lost before NetSuite: the same hours the team once spent on manual reconciliation now go toward analysis instead.
Leadership also gained real time, granular profitability visibility down to specific shifts and individual SKUs across the entire manufacturing footprint, a level of detail that was not accessible under the old systems.
In Their Words
The possibility to access my whole ERP with AI was something really powerful to me, because now I can ask any questions without overloading my team and have that answer straight away. It makes my decisions much faster than they used to be.
CFO, Overland Group
Choosing DWR as a partner gave us that comfort that we’re moving along the right path. The process, the implementation, was very, very smooth.
Finance Manager & Project Lead, Overland Group
A separate product, built by the same team
TaskDrive AI: 2 weeks
becomes an afternoon
For Overland Group’s CFO, reconciling accounts receivable aging across 30, 60, and 90 day buckets used to mean a 2 week wait on the finance team. With TaskDrive AI, an independent agentic AI platform for NetSuite, that same analysis now comes back in a single afternoon, through a plain language query instead of a manual report.
The possibility to access my whole ERP with AI was something really powerful to me, because now I can ask any questions without overloading my team and have that answer straight away. It makes my decisions much faster than they used to be.
CFO, Overland Group
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