Customer Success Stories

Customer Name: Southern Oil (SOILL)

Industry: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Food and Catering
Geography: South Africa
Function: Finance, Production, Sales

Business Value Drivers: – Live, actionable insights, Automation, Self Service, Culture change, Enhanced Collaboration

Challenges

Communication breakdowns
Cumbersome manual processes
Inflexibility

Solution
SOILL and Insight Consulting introduced Qlik Cloud and write back extension Inphinity across the entire organisation.

Results

Early problem and anomaly detection
Self-service analytics
Collaboration
Elimination of scattered spreadsheets

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Customer Name: Mezzan

Industry: Retail and Healthcare
Geography: Middle East
Function: Manufacturer & distributor of food, healthcare and consumer goods

Business Value Driver:- Actionable reporting, business intelligence

Challenges

Financial planning tool obsolete
Manually managing budgets and complex financial tasks across complex network of businesses

Solution
Mezzan Holdings onboarded Insight Consulting to assist with the implementation of Corporate Planning Software enabling far more timeous and effective decision-making.

Results

Monthly financial consolidation
Value-added decision-making
Accurate data gives the business increased confidence in its forecasting
Automated budgeting templates

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Customer Name: Armscor

Industry: Public Sector
Geography: South Africa
Function: Finance, IT, HR

Challenges

Slow reporting hampered key processes and functions
Unreliable figures led to lack of trust and confidence
Delays could ripple out across the public sector

Solution
Together, ARMSCOR and Insight Consulting implemented Qlik Sense and Qlik NPrinting to accelerate processes and deliver consolidated, unified reporting.

Results

Reports that once took weeks now available in hours
Unified source of truth enables accurate insights
Improved data literacy drives interest across the organisation

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Customer Name: Fair Price

Industry: Retail and Services
Geography: South Africa
Function: Finance, IT, Sales, Supply Chain Management
Business Value Driver: Customer Intelligence, New Business Opportunities, Reimagined Processes

Challenges

Improve operational efficiency and customer service
Identify and improve inefficient practices and processes
Inform and incentivise Fair Price sales and production staff

Solution
Fair Price and Insight Consulting introduced Qlik Sense® and write-back extension Komment across key operational areas of the business.

Results

Increased transparency has improved sales and logistics
Key insights have turned losses into profits
Critical tasks such as reconciliations are simplified and accelerated

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Customer Name: Galito’s

Industry: Retail and FMCG
Geography: South Africa
Function: Finance, IT, Sales, Marketing, Distribution
Business Value Driver: Customer Intelligence, New Business Opportunities, Reimagined Processes

Challenges

Unstructured volumes of data
Extensive Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
Inefficient data and reporting processes
No real-time data analytics

Solution
Galitos and Insight Consulting introduced Qlik across key operational areas of the business.

Results

Key insights into operations from marketing, to sales, to distribution
Trends analysis making informed projections on actual performance in real time
Time savings

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Customer Name: Hirsch’s

Industry: Retail
Geography: South Africa
Function: Merchandising
Business Value Driver: Actionable Reporting, Business Intelligence

Challenges

Stock levels across stores
Mining customer data

Solution
Hirsch’s and Insight Consulting implemented Qlik Sense to provide actionable insights across branches.

Results

Unlock immense agility and competitiveness for the business
Greater visibility of business stock and performance
Extract useful insights and automated reports
Accurate forecasting

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Customer Name: The Meridian Group

Industry: Agricultural
Geography: Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Function: Manufacture, Technical, and Distribution
Business Value Driver: Reimagined Processes, Business Intelligence

Challenges

Disparate reporting and budgeting processes
In country regulations across operational footprint
Inconsistent reporting during their planning and forecasting cycles

Solution
The Meridian Group and Insight Consulting implemented Corporate Planning software suite alongside business intelligence software.

Results

Solved real budgeting and planning challenges
Highly complicated consolidated budgets
Transparent and well-founded business decisions across the group
Integrated strategic and operational planning

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Customer Name: Afrimat

Industry: Mining
Geography: South Africa
Function: Construction and Materials
Business Value Driver: Valuable Data, Business Intelligence

Challenges

Appropriate systems and controls
Data analytics and predictive tools
Various small accounting packages

Solution
Afrimat and Insight Consulting implemented QlikView as a business intelligence tool.

Results

Implemented a single ERP system and business intelligence tool, QlikView

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