Case Study

SEAFOOD DISTRIBUTION

The client is one of Australia’s largest seafood companies with a proud 90 year history, employing over 500 employees. The company operates at all levels of the supply chain, including catching, processing, manufacturing, importing, exporting, and wholesaling. Their broad-line, food service range covers chilled, frozen and dry food categories. It has been the nation’s leading processor of Western Rock Lobster for over 30 years.

Solution

Essatto Data Warehousing features were used.

  • Integrated Excel Read and Writeback
  • Web Dashboard and Reports
  • Data Integration to Navision ERP

Industry:

Seafood Distribution

Company Size:

Large

Integrations & Apps Used:

Details

Challenge

  • Antiquated reporting infrastructure
  • Excessive use of spreadsheets and access databases
  • Antiquated demand and supply planning
  • No customer and product profitability reporting
  • Over-servicing and under-servicing of customers
  • Inappropriate level of focus on profitable and unprofitable product lines
  • Rebates calculated in spreadsheets
  • No means to allocate costs
  • Disjointed operational forecasting process

Solution benefits

  • Streamlined demand and supply planning processes
  • Self-service reporting and dashboards
  • Combined internal and external data
  • Customer and product profitability
  • Multi scenario budgets and rolling forecasts
  • Centralised and automated the rebate management process
  • Cost allocation engine

No. of Employees

500+

YEARS IN BUSINESS

90+

Essatto helped simplify the reporting structure which was cumbersome and limited in functionality. The company is now able to produce detailed reporting to improve overall performance.