Finance that runs at the speed of the factory floor
Production entities, regional subsidiaries, and a holding company rarely share one system of record, so cost and margin arrive late, in batches, after the group close. Light consolidates all of it on one live ledger, and streams every entry in real time to the systems that run your plant.
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Built for companies running production, supply, and finance across more than one entity.
One consolidated ledger
Consolidate 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.
Real-time streaming & open API
Every posting streams the moment it happens. Light's open API pushes live financial data straight into your MRP, MES, and shop-floor systems, so operations never wait on a nightly sync.
Cost & margin by entity
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.
Supplier bill pay
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.
Multi-entity, multi-currency
Run every legal entity, currency, and standard on one platform, from US GAAP at the holding company to local statutory books at each plant.
Continuous close
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.
From shop-floor request to reconciled bill
Procure-to-pay runs end to end in Light, with no re-keying, no separate procurement tool, and no nightly export.
Request from Slack or Teams
The manufacturing team raises a purchase request straight from Slack or Teams, where they already work, and it lands in Light for approval.
PO sent on approval
The moment a request is approved, Light issues the purchase order and sends it straight to the manufacturer. No copy-paste, no delay.
Three-way matching
Light matches the purchase order, the goods received, and the supplier bill automatically, so every payment is verified before it goes out.
Real-time sync
Every step syncs to the ledger the instant it happens, so finance and the floor are always looking at the same live numbers.
Made for makers
“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.”Timothy de MierryCFO, Biofire
Four entities, one ledger
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.
The finance team behind the plant floor
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.
Measured outcomes
Across companies and use cases, the impact of Light is clear.
consolidated ledger for every entity, currency, and standard
streaming to your MRP and shop-floor systems, no nightly batch
faster than NetSuite, built on an in-memory HTAP database