For manufacturing
Production sites, regional subsidiaries and the holding company need a shared financial picture. Light brings their accounts together, with reporting dimensions for plant costs and an API for the systems running production.
Chosen by manufacturing teams
Accounting software for manufacturing businesses records supplier spending, plant costs and financial results across production sites and legal entities.
Built for companies running production, supply, and finance across more than one entity.
Explore the platformConsolidate production entities, regional subsidiaries, and the holding company onto one ledger, reporting under group and local standards side by side, with no batch roll-up at period end.
Use Light's open API to connect financial data to manufacturing systems. Scope the data, mappings and update requirements with the implementation team.
Reporting surfaces margin and cost per plant in real time, so a line’s performance doesn’t wait for the group close to be visible, and pricing decisions are made on today’s numbers.
Global bill pay keeps supplier payments and approvals in the same system as the books, instead of a separate AP tool reconciled after the fact.
Run every legal entity, currency, and standard on one platform, from US GAAP at the holding company to local statutory books at each plant.
Because the ledger is always current, the month-end close stops being an event. Reconciliations run continuously, so closing is a review, not a scramble.
Carry the plant and purchasing context from the supplier bill into reporting.
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Light prepares a draft from the supplier invoice. Add the entity, plant and cost-centre properties your reporting needs.
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Apply approval rules by amount, entity or property. Review the bill and any purchase-order discrepancies before payment.
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Follow the posted entries into entity and group reporting. Use bank matching rules to reconcile movements and review differences.
Biofire × Light
“We left NetSuite because our numbers were always a day behind our machines. Light’s real-time event streaming was the killer feature. Our manufacturing systems pull live cost data straight from the ledger, so production never waits on finance to catch up.”
Biofire connects its manufacturing systems to the ledger to keep production and finance working from the same cost data.
Paebbl / Carbon capture & carbon-negative materials
“By implementing Light as our global ERP, we’ve transformed how we operate.”
Paebbl ran three separate ERP systems across its group and couldn't see its own cash flow. It has now moved its group finance operations onto Light, one global platform in place of three.
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Biofire builds the world’s first biometric smart gun in Broomfield, Colorado, using fingerprint and facial recognition so a firearm only fires for its verified owner. The company runs four US entities on Light, with global bill pay, spend management, and shop-floor purchase requests all living in one real-time ledger, wired tightly into their manufacturing systems so finance and production never fall out of step.
Manufacturing finance rarely gets the same attention as production. Light gives the team behind the numbers one calm, current view of every entity, with no plant’s cost or margin waiting on the group close to surface, and no nightly batch standing between the books and the line.
Questions, answered
Light provides the financial ledger, payables and group reporting. Keep production planning and shop-floor operations in their specialist systems, with financial data exchanged through a scoped API integration.
Use custom properties for plants, departments or projects and apply those dimensions to financial entries. Reports can then show recorded costs by location, with drill-down to the underlying transactions.
Light prepares draft coding from supplier invoices. Your rules route approval by entity, amount or reporting property, so the right reviewer sees the bill before it proceeds.
