With seven facilities strategically located throughout the U.S. and Canada, American Zinc Recycling (AZR) operates a diversified portfolio of businesses focused on zinc production and nickel processing – both from recycled materials. As the largest producer of zinc in the U.S., the company relies heavily on effective capital expenditure budget control to maintain its competitive advantage in the market.

Before Finario, AZR relied on an outdated paper-based system to manage its capital expenditure budget, which led the organization to get bogged down throughout the decision making process and obscured project status and overall spend.

“Ultimately, it was difficult to find out who was holding the approval process up and we didn’t have a clear sense of where we stood against budget when new projects were proposed,” said AZR’s Management Information Systems (MIS) Director, Mark Drobka…