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Recycled Fibre → Income Statement · Interactive demonstration board

Jackson Paper (SCC)×BI Consulting Services

Sustainable Corrugated & Containerboard — one board from OCC bale to consolidated P&L

Four Southeast facilities · Sylva NC mill (100% recycled medium) · sheet plants in Morganton NC & Dalton GA · sources: custom ERP on IBM DB2 + SQL Server
Prepared for Quintin
September 2026
Signature view · Fibre balance

From OCC bale to reel: Sylva paper machine flow

Bales in on the left, finished tons on the right. Every figure follows the filters above.

Fibre / mediumCorrugated sheetsLoss & rejects
Trend · 24 months · Oct 2024 – Sep 2026

Tons shipped and gross margin

Selected period is shaded. Top: tons shipped per month. Bottom: gross margin % on one axis of its own — never two scales on one plot.

Multi-entity income statement · customizable & printable

Income statement

One statement per business unit or one consolidated view — the same DB2 general-ledger rows, mapped once to a conformed chart of accounts.

USD thousands · illustrative data
Breakdown · cost of goods per ton

Where each ton's cost goes

Ranked cost lines for the selected entity and period, with the share of net sales each consumes.

Data model · how the numbers get here

DB2 + SQL Server → one warehouse → Power BI

About ten DB2 tables from the custom ERP and about ten SQL Server tables, landed nightly into a small warehouse (well under 1 TB, ten-year retention) and modelled once. Table names are illustrative.

Custom ERP · IBM DB2~10 tables
  • GLTRAN
  • GLACCT
  • ARINV
  • APINV
  • CUSTMST
  • VENDMST
  • PRODRUN
  • ROLLINV
  • SHIPHDR
  • COSTCTR
Change-data capture on journal date · no ERP code changes
Plant systems · SQL Server~10 tables
  • ScaleTicket
  • OccReceipt
  • BaleGrade
  • MachineEvent
  • Downtime
  • QualityTest
  • Corrugator
  • SheetOrder
  • FreightBOL
  • Payroll
Incremental loads by timestamp · 4-hourly for shipments
Warehouse · SQL Serverstar schema
  • stg_*
  • FactGL
  • FactShipments
  • FactIntake
  • FactMachine
  • DimEntity
  • DimAccount
  • DimDate
  • DimCustomer
  • DimProduct
One conformed chart of accounts across Mill, Morganton, Dalton · eliminations as their own entity
Power BIthis board
  • Income statement
  • Fibre balance
  • Operations
  • Paginated print
Nightly 02:00 ET refresh · shipments 4-hourly · row-level security by entity
Monthly
Close support
Statement tie-out to DB2 trial balance, mapping exceptions cleared, close checklist signed off — working day 1 to 5.
Weekly
Refresh health
Load logs reviewed, row-count reconciliation ERP → warehouse, failed refreshes fixed before anyone opens the report.
Continuous
DBA-as-a-service
Backups, index maintenance, patching and the ten-year retention policy on the warehouse — covered as part of the engagement, not a separate hire.
Quarterly
Model review
New accounts, new entities (an SCC integration, for example), new report pages — scoped, prioritised, delivered.
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