Customer Success Stories

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
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
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
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
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
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
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