Summary
Campbell and Kennedy Electric has been in business since 1955 and has run on Jonas since January 2000. Kelly Wenzel manages the finances for the 65-person industrial and commercial electrical contractor. She chose Jonas for its fit across job costing, service billing, and payroll, at a time when Jonas was expanding into the electrical market.
The efficiency gains since then have been specific and measurable. Union payroll reporting that used to take a full day to manually input now takes about an hour. Electronic pay stubs eliminated the need for a driver to physically deliver them to job sites, a task that previously consumed 50 working days per year. Service billing that previously required double entry across two systems now flows directly into the general ledger. Weekly billing cycles have replaced slower turnarounds, and cash flow has improved as a result. Gross profit margin reports give project managers real-time visibility against their estimates, helping upper management track profitability job by job. Over the last 15 years, Campbell and Kennedy Electric has grown sales by approximately 30 percent without adding any administration headcount. When challenges arose along the way, Jonas came back with solutions. For Kelly, that responsiveness is what a long-term partnership looks like in practice.
