Imagine how much more productive your organisation would be if you cut the time it took to make every decision by 20 per cent. For companies such as global packaging manufacturer Orora, this isn't hypothetical; it's a reality, thanks to the power of business intelligence (BI) tools.
By providing self-service access to analytics at all levels of an organisation, Qlik software helps drive higher levels of efficiency. From sales and marketing to production itself, Qlik can deliver improvements throughout the enterprise. Let's take a closer look at how Qlik has boosted productivity at Orora and how it can assist others.
What is Qlik?
When done well, business analytics transforms the way people work. Qlik has been recognised for many years now by leading analysts like Gartner as a business intelligence software leader - simple to use with more power and analytical capability than you can imagine. With Qlik, you're not constrained with how data is related; instead, users have the ability to analyse, reveal and collaborate with organisational data from any area of the business instantaneously.
Qlik puts essential information in one easily accessible platform
The Qlik analytics platform consists of self-service analytics, embedded analytics and guided analytics - courtesy of Qlik Sense and QlikView with smart visualisations, drag-and-drop report or dashboard creation, and the ability to consolidate data from any and multiple data sources.
Qlik analytics In modern manufacturing
Data is transforming the Australian manufacturing industry across production, operations and supply chains. Like it or not, manufacturing is moving faster and needs to be leaner to remain competitive, as the dated, status-quo business systems fall to the wayside.
The ability to use data insights to improve operational efficiency and make better business decisions are the two leading drivers of investment in BI and analytics tools, according to the recent Wisdom of Crowds Survey from Dresner.
The manufacturing industry must corral and understand massive amounts of data from many systems to drive operational efficiencies, higher levels of service and support.
Having the ability to explore the impact and interplay across production efficiency, product quality, customer demand and service excellence simply isn't possible without BI tools like Qlik that deliver a consolidated view of operations in the form of meaningful analytics. In particular, using analytics to:
- Improve production, plant performance and product with self-service analytics
- Enhance sales and operations planning with better forecasting
- Mobilise the supply chain with real-time analytics
- Listen, interpret and react to customer feedback to drive efficiencies and improvements
Qlik and Orora
With a team of 5,500 that spans 7 countries, over $3 billion annual turnover, 39 manufacturing plants and 83 distribution centres, global packaging manufacturer Orora is sitting on top of a veritable mountain of data. This wide scope of operations demands the highest levels of efficiency in turning this data into actionable insight, available to decision makers in teams across the company.
Orora was able to make decisions 20 per cent faster, thanks to Qlik and Inside Info
Serving as the company's strategic business analytics platform, Qlik draws from Orora's SAP BW data warehouse, Salesforce.com data, Kiwiplan, QAD and payroll systems to deliver a consolidated view of performance in a self-service analytics capability. Over 500 employees use this information to improve the way they make decisions every day: a major contributor to the company's 20 per cent improvement in time to decision.
Orora uses Qlik across a variety of business operations, generating a view of plant, customer, and product level profitability, sales and spend activity, production analysis and understanding of supply chain commitments. Information can be viewed at a summarised level or within a few clicks at a detailed invoice line level.
"Our Qlik Pocket Margin Database dashboards have become critical in our day to day: used extensively from the CFO to every sales rep to analyse product, plant and customer profitability. We can quickly identify margin erosion items and improvement opportunities that could otherwise go unnoticed," said Sandy Antonuccio, Orora General Manager for IT applications in Australia and New Zealand.
"We now have the ability to more quickly analyse what's happening across any aspect of the business and take action: truly a strategic asset as we continue to grow."
Through this wider scope of transparency, Inside Info with Qlik has helped Orora understand its real profitability, improve customer service capabilities and maximise supply chain efficiency to make sure deliveries are in-full and consistently on time.
Contact Inside Info today to learn more, and be sure to watch our video on how Qlik’s BI platform is helping to drive operational efficiency and improve productivity.
