A fertilizer plant run on spreadsheets.
Master Chemicals & Fertilizer Plant Ltd blends NPK fertilizer in Asaba, Delta State. Until August, the whole business ran on spreadsheets: a separate one for each part of the company, four-digit legacy account codes, and production run from batch recipes. Quot Enterprise ERP replaced them with one system covering accounting, inventory, procurement, sales and production. The dashboard above is Quot shown with sample data, not Master Chemicals' own figures.
What we moved into Quot.
Go-live was 1 August 2026, and the project closed on 30 October. The old four-digit codes gave way to a six-digit, IFRS-aligned chart of accounts. Opening balances were struck on 31 July and reconciled to the kobo. Every customer, supplier, product and bank master was checked before the first transaction posted. 39 production formulas moved from batch recipes to a per-kilogram bill of materials, and three months of transaction history was loaded, with every month balancing exactly.
Two rules made it work.
First, reconcile every balance. We traced each opening balance back to its source, and not one line was plugged into a suspense account to make the totals agree. Second, Quot first, every time. Management agreed that every transaction goes into the system before it is written down anywhere else. Use an ERP for only some transactions and you end up keeping two sets of books that never quite agree.