The Challenge
Before implementing ShelfCycle, U.S. Chemicals was burdened with manual workarounds, spreadsheets, and outdated technology. The team was managing documents and conversations in multiple places, and they wanted to centralize + automate data entry.
Reporting Control
Automated inventory digests, control over financial analysis
Brand Development
Custom templates for emails and branded deliverables
Complex Workflows
Automated, bespoke billing flows for consignment relationships
The Transformation
"ShelfCycle has made things a lot easier for our office staff. We're growing fast, and now they're more efficient. My estimate is that they each save 7-10 hours per week."
Finance + Operations
ShelfCycle's flexible ledger design meant that U.S. Chemicals was fully in-control of all their accounting data and their custom financial reports. They could do their own forensic accounting, their own reconciliations, their own financial analysis. Their goal was to be able to make faster, more informed decisions.
"We're super happy with ShelfCycle's accounting power, and they have built in customization so we can get the reports the way we want"
Impact & Results
Per employee through automation + centralization
To all business data and custom financial analysis
Needed to migrate data or manage software
Focused on Strategic Growth
The time savings from using ShelfCycle went straight into strategic initiatives. Instead of being bogged down by manual processes, the team is now on offense. They are growing fast - evaluating new importers, engaging new suppliers, adding to their customer portfolio.
"With the time that they have now, the operations team is definitely thinking about more strategic things. For example, we were able to evaluate and refine our list of freight carriers to make sure we are working with the best ones."
Looking Forward
U.S. Chemicals has a technology appetite. They see the opportunity to be on the leading-edge in the industry. ShelfCycle releases new functionality every day, and every day, U.S. Chemicals is there to embrace it. They are pushing deeper into the power of having all their data and every employee in one modern system.
"I've been talking to ShelfCycle at minimum on a weekly basis. We constantly bring suggestions to their engineering team through the embedded chat, and they go implement the idea. That makes it so much easier to get what we need and to get it right."
