Success of Lean Manufacturing initiative Rests on Visibility of Data
The Business Issues
For more than 125 years, Sealy has been synonymous with sleep. Sealy is also synonymous with continuous business improvement. That is why the company decided to aggressively pursue a lean manufacturing initiative intended to reduce costs without sacrificing customer satisfaction. When disparate data and sources threatened the success of their initiative Sealy turned to Oracle and Global Analytics for a solution.
The Solution : Global Analytics engaged Essbase, EIS and Hyperion Financial Reporting to deliver clean, consolidated sales and supply chain reports for Sealy that provided a single, accurate view of demand. In-depth customer ranking and a single, national, daily sales report gave Sealy new visibility into their business. Detailed allocation logic that is easily modified enabled an entire portfolio of analytic reporting that ensured the success of the lean manufacturing initiative.
The Business Value of the Solution Sealy is now more able to support their lean manufacturing initiative with their sales reporting processes. The benefits include a consistent financial database giving them more visibility into their data, more accurate information that users can access with a close cycle of less than a day instead of a week, and integrated actual and budget data creating a more complete view of company performance with access to live data instead of static reports.
Global Analytics' Value that drove this Customer Success
Global Analytics also has a lean initiative; we design the right solution, measure performance, streamline reporting, and analyze the data in real time. Global Analytics has the ability to listen well, think fast, and respond with flexibility to meet customer needs and accomplish their goals for BPM initiatives.
“By delivering the whole picture as well as the close-up view, Global Analytics helped us achieve our goal of Business Performance Management. Their quality, technical infrastructure, data integration and analytic resources provided exactly what we needed.”
-David Twine, Sr. Vice President of Information Technology
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