About Flow Control Group

Flow Control Group is a PE-owned industrial distributor of flow control, fluid, and air products across the US and Canada. It’s an aggregator that has grown tremendously—through more than 100 acquisitions in just four years.

The Challenges

That growth created one of the hardest problems in treasury: integration at scale.

Dozens of disconnected systems

Each acquisition brought its own systems. Flow Control Group runs four main ERPs, and dozens of brands operate on everything from QuickBooks to SAP. Pulling a reliable, company-wide cash picture out of that patchwork was difficult, and a large accounting staff had direct access to the banks.

“With that many acquisitions comes a horrible amount of integration—that’s the hardest work for a treasurer. Multiple ERPs, so my team is trying to standardize as much as possible the reporting and the access.”

Running lean on cash

As a PE-owned business, Flow Control Group never has a lot of cash lying around. The treasury team has to optimize cash and move it where it’s needed—which is only possible with real-time visibility and dependable projections, exactly what fragmented ERPs couldn’t provide.

Why Nilus

Raluca Dusa, VP of Treasury & Risk Management, wanted two things: a way to address the accounting and reconciliation work, and a dependable 13-week cash forecast across the whole group. She chose Nilus for the platform and the AI built into it.

“I saw something in the tool you’re building, and the AI component that comes with it, that I think will make our life easier.”

It was also a question of standardization—getting every entity onto one place so a lean team could function across a sprawling, multi-ERP organization.

The Solution

Flow Control Group connected its banks to Nilus, tagged transactions, and built reporting on top—then started moving into forecasting. The rollout was deliberately staged.

“We connected the banks, tagged the transactions, created reporting on top of that, and now we’re stepping into the forecast. We agreed to take our Excel format and put it into Nilus first, then layer in categories by tagging. Let’s start simple—and then we’re all set.”

Despite a small team, the implementation went smoothly. “Very helpful, very knowledgeable—connecting the banks and everything worked pretty smoothly.”

Conclusion

By bringing 100+ acquisitions and four ERPs into a single, real-time cash view, Flow Control Group is giving a lean treasury team the visibility and forecasting it needs to keep a capital-efficient, PE-backed business running on very little spare cash.