Analyse trends to capture consumer loyalty. Build and manage the intelligent supply chain that can respond to just-in-time production and demand signals. Reduce time-to-market to win mindshare and shelf space. Optimise trade fund management to maximise sales, margin, and return on marketing investment.

Consumer products companies are operating increasingly complex global supply and distribution networks. Close collaboration is required among product developers and marketers, suppliers and retailers to gain real time visibility into business conditions. Profitability depends on the ability to deliver detailed and on-demand analysis into every aspect of the enterprise to enable optimal decision-making by everyone across the consumer value chain.

With business intelligence from QlikView, leading consumer products companies can: segment markets, competition and customers, exert greater discipline in promotion management, integrate retailer sales data with sell-through information, reduce operational costs by analysing information and ensure trusted and timely regulatory compliance by enabling drill-down visibility into quality assurance, product safety, and recall measures.

Retail & Wholesale Distribution

Analyse customers, products and transactions across channels and geographical markets. Rapidly integrate data from point-of-sale, merchandising, supply chain, financial and resource management systems to identify revenue, margin and profit opportunities. Empower retail and wholesale teams with self-guided decision support anywhere, anytime.

The retail and wholesale industries have never been more fragmented or fractured than they are today. From discount warehouse shops to upscale speciality stores, corner convenience chains to mega e-commerce sites, buyers are better informed, less loyal, and highly cautious about discretionary spending. Organisations are striving to balance product, price and service sensitivities, while protecting margins; to ensure inventory availability while maintaining reduced carrying costs; and to deliver favorable multi-channel experiences, while streamlining daily operations at all levels of the enterprise. Now, more than ever, information must be leveraged in new ways to gain competitive advantage and renew stability in these uncertain times.

With business intelligence from QlikView, leading retailers can: increase productivity by channel, location, and associate, align the right mix of products and services by channel and location, reduce costs and increase effectiveness of the supply chain and improve service levels. 

Transportation & Logistics

The process of getting products delivered from one place to another, on time, efficiently, and at the lowest cost possible is mission critical for transportation and logistics providers. Starting from razor-thin margins, profitability is often gained or missed by the volatile cost of fuel. In this extremely competitive market, one late delivery or unexpected freight surcharge can mean missed revenue opportunities and a lost customer forever.

For transportation and logistics organisations to achieve maximum profitability, collaboration with a number of trading partners in various parts of the world, ranging from suppliers, carriers and government agencies must be enabled. The cornerstone of agile operations requires visibility to inventories in transit as well as any market events which will impact on-time delivery. When this information is visible inside and outside the enterprise, unexpected events can be rapidly assessed and mitigation plans can be quickly developed and implemented. Increasing the visibility of two-way information enables companies to achieve service goals in spite of market events that are impossible to control.

With business intelligence from QlikView, leading transport and logistics companies can: improve profitability with in-depth analysis of service and network portfolio across customers, suppliers and every step in the logistics chain, track supplier performance against service level agreements, improve cash flow and gain operational efficiencies and streamline safety, traceability and compliance reporting with drill-down detail to documentation.

Enter the QlikView business intelligence software

QlikView is a single product that provides all the capabilities that traditionally would require an entire suite of complex products to achieve. QlikView is revolutionising business intelligence with the fast and powerful visualisation capabilities that you've always wanted. More importantly, QlikView is a simple, self service tool designed specifically to enable business users. In a matter of hours or days, QlikView puts information at your fingertips and frees you to make quick decisions, giving you the intelligence you need to act – faster.

At informance, we have vast experience within the consumer products industry and have implemented QlikView for customers including: Bristan Group, TSL Education and Westcoast. 

“QlikView has enabled us to have a 360 degree view of our business, which gives us the data we need at our fingertips and enables us to make rapid commercial judgements with one  version of the truth across our whole enterprise.” Richrd Evans, head of IT, Bristan Group