Are you representing a firm that is associated with a huge number of renowned wholesalers and original manufacturers from multiple locations worldwide? Are you not sure if your daily transactions with them are 100% transparent and there is no gap between your operations and management? If your answer is fully or partially yes, then this post is going to help you solve your biggest concerns.
Something about the client that you can relate to.
The client is basically a major player in Tire trading industry who procures tires from multiple vendors who are based at several locations. They sell these tires in 43 different countries with around 4800 point-of-sales. Wherever the “multiple location” mechanism exists, the challenges comes complimentary. Business Intelligence Services are precisely designed to get such challenging areas rectified. The accuracy and transparency in the system in very important, and if it is not taken care of, your firm might end up spending huge costs every year.
What did they want?
They wanted a system that collects and processes the data without manual dependency from all these locations in order to get an accurate statistical overview of all the transactions carried out by the firm.
A transparent data that displayed the comparison of figures of Manufacturers with the Wholesalers and that with the internally collected figures.
An exclusive software solution that provides them with a recompilation of numbers submitted by manufacturers and POS as well as help them track the problem areas to take necessary actions.
An evaluation of the entire purchasing activity in a graphical interface that made the decision making easier, and not in the critical excel format
What were the challenges?
Nonavailability of ideal software that covered the collection, storage and maintenance of critical data acquired by manufacturers, POS, wholesalers.
Non-transparency between two parties i.e., company to POS, or manufacturers to company etc. due to an improper management system.
Complicated representation of data that took ages for the decision makers to identify critical situations and make decisions based on that.
To untangle these situations, the client specifically wanted to hire Pentaho developer (one of the trusted BI tool) as per the suggestions were given by the management team.
How did BI help to run their operations smoothly?
The Pentaho developer designed a logical & implementable structure of databases on the basis of the analysis of the main sources.
An ETL process was designed for the data consolidation which is quite typical for every BI tool.
Again, to be more specific, the metadata was developed for generating the required analytical and operational reports which were explicitly requested by the client in order to gain a better transparency.
The dashboard helped the client to compare data through multiple dimensions.
This dashboard was designed based on the KPIs that were mentioned by the client to have a comprehensive overview of overall purchasing transactions.
The client was benefitted to evaluate the entire process accurately and was then able to make complicated decisions with much ease.
It is time for companies to understand the importance of Business Intelligence Services for stability in the long run of the business. It not only collects and stores the data on secured servers but also identifies vital loopholes in the organization for the managers to eliminate them completely. If you are in a situation like above, it’s never late to consult an experienced Business Intelligence developer who can guide you further.
