Beauty Products Manufacturer Improves Decision-making Efficiency and Agility

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Highlights

Industry: F&B, Retail & Consumer Products 
Solution: Customised Sage 300 Intelligence Reporting Utility 
Results: 

• Greater productivity
• Faster, more effective decision-making
• Improved business agility

Challenge 

A multinational beauty products manufacturer experienced rapid growth of incoming orders from in-flight services and duty-free stores in the Asia-Pacific region. Rapid analysis of the voluminous data was critical for timely and effective decision-making. But this was a huge challenge without an automated business intelligence (BI) system. Manual compilation of data from multiple sources for analysis was tedious and time-consuming, negatively affecting decision-making efficiency and business agility. Consequently, the company approached Stone Forest IT (SFIT) for a solution to efficiently analyse sales data, pricing information, as well as inventory and financial trends.

Solution

SFIT introduced a customised Sage 300 Intelligence Reporting utility with the following
capabilities:

• Eliminate redundant data entries by integrating multiple data sources with the client’s Sage 300 accounting system
• Easily create new BI reports with a variety of standard report templates or from scratch using the familiar Microsoft Excel interface
• Use drag-and-drop Excel formulas that facilitate financial reporting
• View one-page summary of key business information in text or graphical form, with convenient drill down function providing further insights into numbers
• View the same set of financial data in many different ways for simple or sophisticated analysis
• Fully automate delivery of BI reports to different destinations such as an FTP site, SharePoint, OneDrive or Dropbox
• Secure confidential BI reports against unauthorised access or manipulation

Results 

After implementation, the client enjoyed the following benefits:

• Greater productivity with efficient data analysis
• Faster, more effective decision-making resulting from better real-time visibility over business-critical information
• Improved business agility

SFIT’s customised Sage 300 solutions enhance productivity for organisations and meet their diverse needs ranging from business intelligence to compliance and payment collection.