A Northeast Ohio industrial company was looking for a business intelligence reporting platform that would enable them to better measure, manage and optimize their assets by focusing on four key business areas:
Sales, Production, Transportation, Inventory
We designed a solution that consolidates data from the four targeted areas and delivers key metrics, views and reports that allow for constant monitoring and detailed cross-analysis. Our client has been able to gain a better understanding of customer demand, where capacity constraints exist, up to date inventory levels and transportation cost drivers so they can all be better managed.
It’s not that our client didn’t already have the data needed to perform these management tasks. They did. But the data wasn’t very easy to work with and its full value wasn't being realized. They had large volumes of data, stored in multiple databases and in multiple formats. It took IT professionals significant time to create static reports that were difficult for analysts to wade through. And if the report didn’t answer the right questions a new one, with new parameters, had to be rerun.
Our solution delivers user-friendly interactive dashboard views along with reports that regularly update themselves and can be easily accessed and customized by a business user. Instead of gathering and organizing data, our client's analysts spend their time analyzing and understanding data, enabling better management decisions that result in reaching the targeted optimization goals.