Optimizing Operations Through Unified Data for a Growing Company

A growing manufacturer partnered with Mutually Human to overcome data challenges from rapid acquisitions. By implementing a centralized data lake and real-time BI dashboards, the company streamlined operations, improved inventory management, and enhanced decision-making. The solution also reduced system integration times and laid the groundwork for future scalability and advanced analytics.

Business Challenge:

A rapidly growing manufacturer faced data management challenges, causing inefficiencies, inventory imbalances, and delayed decisions.

A manufacturing company expanding rapidly through the acquisition of multiple companies faced data management challenges. Each acquired company operated on different systems for inventory, sales, production, and financials, making it difficult to get a consolidated view of the company’s operations. This lack of integration led to inefficiencies, such as surplus inventory in some locations and shortages in others, increased shipping costs, and delays in decision-making. Additionally, the company struggled to connect inventory control with sales forecasts, complicating its ability to manage inventory and optimize production effectively.

Approach:

The company subscribed to our Managed Data Services solution to unify their data and streamline operations.

To address the company’s data challenges and create a streamlined, scalable infrastructure, we delivered a customized Managed Data Services solution to unify data across all plants and systems.

We created a centralized data lake that connected the various systems used by each plant, consolidating data into a single, unified source of truth. This allows the company to manage critical metrics, such as inventory, sales, and production, in real time, ensuring consistency across all locations.

We developed standardized business intelligence (BI) dashboards, giving leadership and plant managers easy access to real-time data. Additionally, when the company acquires new businesses, we streamline the integration process, reducing the time required to integrate new systems from months to just days.

By subscribing to our Managed Data Services, the company receives ongoing data engineering support, enabling continuous updates to dashboards and refinements to reports, laying the groundwork for future AI applications in demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and supply chain optimization.

Results:

Improved efficiency, streamlined decision-making, and optimized inventory and shipping through real-time data access and a unified dashboard.

Enhanced Inventory Management

A unified data view enabled better stock control, reducing waste and minimizing surplus.

Reorganized Sales Team

Identified and eliminated overlapping sales territories, leading to more efficient resource use and stronger support across plants.

Scalability for Growth

The newly implemented centralized data infrastructure supports seamless integration of new plants.

Optimized Shipping

Orders are now fulfilled from the closest plants, lowering shipping costs and improving delivery times.

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Improved responsiveness to market demands, streamlined production planning, and increased operational efficiency.

Future-Ready for AI

Foundation set for advanced analytics, including demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and supply chain optimization, keeping the company competitive.

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