Case Studies
Inside Info has equipped hundreds of organisations with instant access to all the information they need to make better business decisions.
We have strong domain experience in manufacturing, distribution, retail and pharmaceutical industries, having also delivered key projects to companies in the logistics, health, education, utilities, insurance and services sectors. Here’s a selection of a few customer case studies.
- Amcor case study
- Apparel Group case study
- Fujitsu General case study
- Manassen Foods case study
- Bianco Construction Supplies case study
- Toro Australia case study
- asteRx case study
Global packaging leader Amcor initiated the ‘Value Plus’ project to build sales and marketing excellence company-wide. Inside Info was chosen as Amcor’s BI partner to deliver interactive dashboards showing plant, customer and product level profitability and supply chain analysis across the business using QlikView on top of SAP BW. The solution was rolled out to over 500 employees in 25 works days allocating costs back to invoice line and ship to level for over 1 million SKU’s. IT analysts Gartner selected Amcor as the only Australian finalist in the 2009 BI Excellence Awards for this project, estimating an increase in Amcor’s gross profit margin by 1% in the first year alone.
Apparel Group, home to the iconic Saba and Sportscraft brands, builds greater intelligence into its business and store performance with Inside Info. Based on the Inside Retail Dashboard, Inside Info replaced Apparel’s Retail Business Analysis reporting suite with two interactive analysis dashboards for Sales & Stock for head office and its stores, rolled out to over 300 users in 35 days.
“From concept to go-live it took 35 days to implement our sales and stock applications, providing a platform for future growth. Inside Info understood QlikView and understood what Apparel Group was trying to achieve. The implementation was a complete success.”
Leading air conditioning supplier, Fujitsu General uses Inside Info’s QlikView applications to increase line level, cost and stock allocation profitability and improve sales and marketing initiatives in the areas of rebates, customer orders, stock allocations and deliveries. Applications were designed and delivered to over 150 management, sales, marketing, finance and operational staff in just 3 weeks integrating with Fujitsu’s Epicor ERP. As a result, Fujitsu General has achieved a 15% improved return on rebate investment, improved inventory management by 12% and lifted IT staff productivity by 15%. Inside Info’s work at Fujitsu was awarded with a Supply Chain and Logistics Association High Commendation Excellence Award in 2009.
Leading grocery distributor Manassen Foods needed to understand performance across multiple businesses at a Group and individual level to empower sales, operational and management teams. With a new Lawson ERP go-live imminent, Inside Info’s Inside Lawson Dashboard was chosen bringing to the table a best-practice sales, customer, product, inventory and financial analysis application. Delivered in just 4 weeks to over 100 users, Manassen has improved delivery to promise to 97% of goods, saving the business significantly within the first year, due to better management of distressed stock.
Bianco is a leading supplier of structural steel, reinforcing, building hire, construction equipment, tools and services to the building, construction, civil, Government and mining industries. With Inside Info’s Inside Lawson Dashboard sales, operations and management teams now have granular analysis of sales and logistics, delivered in just 30 days. As a result, improving IT staff productivity, saving at least 500 hours each year.
Toro is a leading worldwide provider of outdoor maintenance and beautification products for home, recreation and commercial. Toro Australia deployed QlikView to operational, sales and management staff to consolidate data from multiple systems including SAP BW, service centre, freight and CRM management systems. With most of the BI application development managed inhouse, Toro were able to have their first sales and margin application up and running in 6 days with only 2 days of QlikView Developer Training by Inside Info. Toro have improved IT staff productivity, saving the cost of one full-time equivalent IT resource in not authoring & producing reports, while also improving face-to-face time with customers and tighter control of freight costs.
AsteRx, an online clinical data and market research services company for the Australian healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, is using Inside Info’s QlikView business intelligence application via the web to help its customers bring its research data to life and more easily identify health market trends, customer behaviour and prescription anomalies, delivered in just 12 working days.
