Do these scenarios sound familiar? 

Your company acquires another business—or several—and each acquired business keeps its ERP and accounting routines. Or you have accounting teams in different countries and regions, using different ERPs to support local operations and requirements. These are different routes to the same challenge: teams closing across systems with different data, processes, and timelines. 

At month-end, leaders still need to bring the results together, understand what’s complete, and see where attention is needed. Coordinating that work across systems can make it difficult to get a consistent view of the close. 

A global close shouldn’t depend on every business running the same ERP. It should depend on every team having a consistent way to get the work done.  

Trintech understands that challenge and has helped thousands of companies solve it. 

Multiple ERPs aren’t the problem. Managing the gaps between them is.  

The work adds up between the systems. 

Each team may have a process that works for its ERP. The challenge comes when accounting leaders need those teams’ data, status, and outstanding issues to come together. 

A bank or point-of-sale file may arrive with fields that need to be interpreted and mapped. The same source data may require different mappings for different ERPs, while account structures, reconciliation rules, and close calendars can vary by entity. As transaction volumes rise, so does the work required to keep everything aligned. 

Teams often bridge the gaps with spreadsheets, manual file preparation, and one-off help from IT. People have to confirm which file, mapping, and process applies, then chase down issues when the data doesn’t line up. Leaders may need to piece together updates from multiple teams to understand what is complete and where work is stalled.

For a global enterprise, that’s more than a data problem. It makes a consistent view of the financial close progress harder to sustain.  

Bring close work together without replacing the ERPs you rely on.

Trintech connects to multiple ERPs and other relevant data sources, bringing the information accounting teams need into a shared environment for reconciliation and close work.  

Incoming files and ERP data can have different formats, field names, and structures. Trintech helps teams map and organize that information so it can be used consistently in their reconciliation processes. Instead of preparing and managing close work separately in each ERP, teams can work through a common process in Trintech and produce the information needed by their respective systems. Trintech helps teams map incoming data for reconciliation and prepare outputs to meet the requirements of the receiving systems. 

That creates room for shared workflows, controls, and visibility across the organization, while still allowing for differences that matter at the entity or regional level. Teams can follow common standards and still account for local requirements. 

Creating a single source of truth does not require migrating to one ERP. Trintech extends and connects existing ERPs and other data sources, bringing close data together in one consistent view while each ERP remains in place as its system of record. 

High transaction volumes make consistency even more important.

In a multi-ERP environment, volume comes with variation. Hundreds or thousands of transactions may flow each day from different ERPs, banks, and business systems, each with its own data structures and matching needs.  

Teams need to keep routine matches moving while making exceptions visible and actionable. Trintech supports customers processing millions of transactions daily. By bringing data from multiple systems into a shared reconciliation process, Trintech helps teams apply matching rules at scale, automate routine activity, and direct attention to transactions that need investigation.  

The result is a consistent way to manage high-volume work across ERP environments, with visibility into matching results and unresolved items. 

What does this look like in practice? 

For global pharmaceutical leader Bayer, the finance landscape included five similar SAP systems and an acquired system with a distinct setup. As Bayer planned to consolidate into two main systems, it used Trintech alongside its SAP S/4HANA migration to avoid extensive configuration changes within SAP and to scale financial close processes.  

At ABB, a global engineering company, 195 units across regions followed different approaches to balance sheet reconciliation, making a consistent global view difficult. ABB worked with Trintech and Capgemini to standardize the process across its diversified ERP landscape with a single core model. 

After more than 100 acquisitions, leading North American auto parts provider LKQ Corporation needed greater consistency and visibility across its close. By standardizing close processes in Trintech, LKQ managed 21,775 reconciliations within a common framework.  

Each case reflects a different challenge: Bayer navigated ERP migration and consolidation, ABB standardized reconciliation across a global organization, and LKQ brought consistency and visibility to acquisition-driven, high-volume close work. Together, they show how Trintech helps accounting teams create more consistent close processes across complex, changing environments. 

Ready to take the next step in taming multi-ERP complexity? 

Whether your landscape includes SAP, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or dozens of smaller regional ERPs, Trintech can help bring close data and work together across the systems your organization already uses.  

A conversation with a Trintech specialist who understands your ERP landscape, transaction volumes, and close requirements can help you find a practical path to a more consistent close. 

Written By: Lindsay Rose