Manufacturing and industrial automation
This American manufacturing client, founded nearly 250 years ago and now encompassing leading global brands, sought a custom POS integration and analytics solution.
Overview
THE CHALLENGE
A manufacturing and industrial automation company had a highly manual process to load and maintain their POS sales information.
THE SOLUTION
Ollion built a custom web service and analytics solution for near-real-time, automated integration of data from various sources.
THE OUTCOME
The client gained operational cost savings from having an automated solution, clear and accurate insights into their sales performance metrics, and the ability to meet corporate reporting needs.
The Challenge
Our client’s point-of-sales application functioned in a silo and required a highly manual process to load and maintain their POS sales information. This led to data inconsistency and quality issues. These issues prevented our client from meeting corporate reporting needs and resulted in a three- to four-month delay in distributing sales bonuses to their employees.
The Solution
Our solution uses custom web services to allow for near-real-time, automated integration of data from various sources, processing more than 500 distributers and 3,000 files per month. Using an ETL process, our custom POS solution performs data quality checks on this information and consolidates it into a centralized data repository. The data is then integrated into an enterprise data warehouse for reporting and analytics on sales and marketing information in a powerful, easy-to-use dashboard.
The Outcome
Our client gained operational cost savings from having an automated solution, clear and accurate insights into their sales performance metrics, and the ability to meet corporate reporting needs.
Our custom POS solution resulted in:
- Robust analytics on sales quantities, parts, sales by customer and other metrics that meet corporate reporting needs
- Quick turnaround on sales information for sales commissions
- Real-time automated processing
- Actionable and accurate data on transactions and revenue for key customer accounts
