David Nkurunziza, Nkurunziza Group

Customer Story · Retail Chain · Kigali

“Thirty-five staff across four branches, and I can see the cash position of all of them on my phone. That sentence used to be a fantasy.”

David Nkurunziza · Finance Director · Nkurunziza Group

The company

Industry: Retail chain (supermarkets)
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Size: 35 staff · 4 branches
Using GwizaSuite since: May 2024

Before GwizaSuite

Cash position known weekly at best
Four branch managers, four report formats
Quarterly board meeting = quarterly panic
No consolidated P&L

After 90 days

Live consolidated cash position
One report format, all branches
Monthly board packs generated automatically
Consolidated P&L by branch

Modules in use

Inventory
Sales
Payments
Accounting
Customer Portal
Reports

David Nkurunziza at Nkurunziza Group HQ, Kimironko.

The problem

The Nkurunziza Group runs four supermarkets in and around Kigali. Before GwizaSuite, David — the finance director — received four weekly PDFs from four branch managers, each in a slightly different format. Consolidating them for the board took him three days every quarter.

Why GwizaSuite

He priced QuickBooks Enterprise against GwizaSuite. The total cost for four branches tipped the decision. The RRA-format VAT summary made it easy.

Implementation

Rolling out four branches at once was ambitious. Two succeeded in the first month, two took a second month. By day 90 all four were on the same ledger.

90 days in

David generates his monthly board pack now on Monday morning. It used to take three days. It now takes two hours. The extra time goes to actual decisions.