DELIVERED WORK · Distribution & wholesale
Distribution & wholesale: ERP answers in minutes
A wholesale distributor moved from a specialist-constrained reporting process to data-backed answers in about five minutes on average.
OPERATING IMPACT
- ~5 min
- Average time to a data-backed answer
- about one week before, about five minutes after
- Time to a data-backed answer (project-owner statement, not independently measured)
- Wider access
- Reporting capability available to executive, operations, and management teams
- 4 planning areas
- Inventory, partner promotions, sales effort, and route planning
WHAT CHANGED
- Connected ERP data and reporting to a grounded research workspace so teams can investigate questions without waiting on scarce data-science capacity.
- Made product, customer, territory, promotion, stock, and delivery questions accessible to the people responsible for the operating decision.
- Kept answers tied to the available data so teams can review the basis for a recommendation before acting.