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Jaga Implements QlikView for Sales Analysis and Forecasting

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Predictive Quality Analytics
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Jaga, a Belgian multinational that develops and sells innovative heating concepts, was facing challenges in providing timely insight into SAP sales data and performing trend analyses of forecasts, sales results, product and product group performance, countries, regions, and resellers. The company was using Excel spreadsheets for these reports and analyses, which resulted in a lot of manual work to consolidate the required data into a single spreadsheet. In addition, people often used outdated and incomplete data, which sometimes resulted in the wrong decisions being taken. Creating the necessary graphs and statistics in order to perform proper analysis was a very time-consuming activity. In these conditions, when flexibility and speed are key words in every healthy business, a solid BI solution was indispensable. Read More
About Customer	Jaga is a Belgian multinational that develops and sells innovative heating concepts. Its headquarters are located in Diepenbeek. The company has subsidiaries throughout Western Europe and exports to Canada, Russia and the United States. Since the early sixties, Jaga has occupied a special place in the heating solutions industry by constantly developing new, technically and aesthetically innovative concepts. Jaga started as a Belgian family-owned company and has grown into a multinational with subsidiaries throughout Western Europe. Jaga is headquartered in Diepenbeek in Belgium, where 350 of out of the 450 employees are working. From this location and a production plant in the Czech Republic the company supports Western Europe and exports its products to Canada, Russia and the United States. Read More
Solution	Jaga implemented a complete QlikView application for sales in seven days. The sales department independently analyses forecasts, trends and product, product group, country and reseller results. With QlikView, Jaga is able to present SAP data in a flexible manner using clear dashboards with drilldown functionality. The company chose to take the implementation into their own hands, allowing them to build up in-house knowledge of QlikView. Their partner, Credon, gave them a four-day training course, after which they started their development. During the development stage, they had technical support for two additional days. In short, they succeeded in independently building a complete, working BI application for the sales team, with training and support adding up to a total investment of only six days. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Jaga, a Belgian multinational that develops and sells innovative heating concepts, was facing challenges in providing timely insight into SAP sales data and performing trend analyses of forecasts, sales results, product and product group performance, countries, regions, and resellers. The company was using Excel spreadsheets for these reports and analyses, which resulted in a lot of manual work to consolidate the required data into a single spreadsheet. In addition, people often used outdated and incomplete data, which sometimes resulted in the wrong decisions being taken. Creating the necessary graphs and statistics in order to perform proper analysis was a very time-consuming activity. In these conditions, when flexibility and speed are key words in every healthy business, a solid BI solution was indispensable.

About Customer

Jaga is a Belgian multinational that develops and sells innovative heating concepts. Its headquarters are located in Diepenbeek. The company has subsidiaries throughout Western Europe and exports to Canada, Russia and the United States. Since the early sixties, Jaga has occupied a special place in the heating solutions industry by constantly developing new, technically and aesthetically innovative concepts. Jaga started as a Belgian family-owned company and has grown into a multinational with subsidiaries throughout Western Europe. Jaga is headquartered in Diepenbeek in Belgium, where 350 of out of the 450 employees are working. From this location and a production plant in the Czech Republic the company supports Western Europe and exports its products to Canada, Russia and the United States.

Solution

Jaga implemented a complete QlikView application for sales in seven days. The sales department independently analyses forecasts, trends and product, product group, country and reseller results. With QlikView, Jaga is able to present SAP data in a flexible manner using clear dashboards with drilldown functionality. The company chose to take the implementation into their own hands, allowing them to build up in-house knowledge of QlikView. Their partner, Credon, gave them a four-day training course, after which they started their development. During the development stage, they had technical support for two additional days. In short, they succeeded in independently building a complete, working BI application for the sales team, with training and support adding up to a total investment of only six days.

Impact #1	Positive return on investment within a month
Impact #2	Single application for more than ten different individual reports
Impact #3	Savings of over 200 man hours per month in collecting and presenting data

Impact #1

Positive return on investment within a month

Impact #2

Single application for more than ten different individual reports

Impact #3

Savings of over 200 man hours per month in collecting and presenting data

Benefit #1	Positive return on investment within a month
Benefit #2	Savings of over 200 man hours per month in collecting and presenting data

Benefit #1

Positive return on investment within a month

Benefit #2

Savings of over 200 man hours per month in collecting and presenting data

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Jaga Implements QlikView for Sales Analysis and Forecasting

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