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Lifetime Brands unlocks data in SAP® and other systems for seamless analysis with QlikView®

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Supply Chain Visibility Inventory Management
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Lifetime Brands, a leading designer, developer, and marketer of a broad range of nationally branded consumer products used in the home, was facing significant challenges in terms of visibility into supply chain management and sales analysis. The company had grown organically and through acquisitions, leading to a complex landscape of disparate enterprise software systems. This made consolidated reporting for all company brands a significant challenge. The company had recently replaced its legacy Great Plains application with an implementation of SAP R/3. While the new system provided a view into current operations, it could not incorporate historical data, which made comparison and analysis a difficult process. The out-of-the-box reporting capabilities from SAP were limited and would not provide the level of detailed analysis that Lifetime Brands desired. Read More
About Customer	Lifetime Brands (www.lifetimebrands. com) is North America’s leading designer, developer and marketer of kitchenware, home decor and accessories. The Company markets its products under more than a dozen of the industry’s best-known brands, including Farberware, Cuisinart, Calvin Klein, CasaModa and Hoffritz. Lifetime’s products are distributed through almost every major retailer in the United States. The company had grown significantly, both organically and through acquisitions, leading to a complex landscape of disparate enterprise software systems. This made consolidated reporting for all company brands a significant challenge. The company had recently replaced its legacy Great Plains application with an implementation of SAP R/3. Read More
Solution	Lifetime Brands deployed QlikView to 145 employees in less than 8 weeks. With QlikView, Lifetime Brands now analyzes sales performance and trends, inventory turns, and fill rates. Through QlikView Server (64-bit) and QlikView Publisher, Lifetime Brands supports security and visibility of its data records. In addition, QlikView Connector enabled Lifetime Brands to immediately leverage the data within SAP and legacy systems. The team decided to start with sales and supply chain analysis, the areas in which they needed better visibility most urgently. Within the first week of working with QlikView, the Lifetime Brands team was building reports that had been impossible to build after years of working with the source systems – Demand Solutions, RedPrarie, Great Plains and a variety of legacy systems. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Supply Chain Visibility

Inventory Management

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Lifetime Brands, a leading designer, developer, and marketer of a broad range of nationally branded consumer products used in the home, was facing significant challenges in terms of visibility into supply chain management and sales analysis. The company had grown organically and through acquisitions, leading to a complex landscape of disparate enterprise software systems. This made consolidated reporting for all company brands a significant challenge. The company had recently replaced its legacy Great Plains application with an implementation of SAP R/3. While the new system provided a view into current operations, it could not incorporate historical data, which made comparison and analysis a difficult process. The out-of-the-box reporting capabilities from SAP were limited and would not provide the level of detailed analysis that Lifetime Brands desired.

About Customer

Lifetime Brands (www.lifetimebrands. com) is North America’s leading designer, developer and marketer of kitchenware, home decor and accessories. The Company markets its products under more than a dozen of the industry’s best-known brands, including Farberware, Cuisinart, Calvin Klein, CasaModa and Hoffritz. Lifetime’s products are distributed through almost every major retailer in the United States. The company had grown significantly, both organically and through acquisitions, leading to a complex landscape of disparate enterprise software systems. This made consolidated reporting for all company brands a significant challenge. The company had recently replaced its legacy Great Plains application with an implementation of SAP R/3.

Solution

Lifetime Brands deployed QlikView to 145 employees in less than 8 weeks. With QlikView, Lifetime Brands now analyzes sales performance and trends, inventory turns, and fill rates. Through QlikView Server (64-bit) and QlikView Publisher, Lifetime Brands supports security and visibility of its data records. In addition, QlikView Connector enabled Lifetime Brands to immediately leverage the data within SAP and legacy systems. The team decided to start with sales and supply chain analysis, the areas in which they needed better visibility most urgently. Within the first week of working with QlikView, the Lifetime Brands team was building reports that had been impossible to build after years of working with the source systems – Demand Solutions, RedPrarie, Great Plains and a variety of legacy systems.

Impact #1	Garnered time and cost savings from elimination of wait time for reports and forecasting
Impact #2	Achieved single point of entry to disparate systems – collapsing 100 individual reports into a single QlikView
Impact #3	Improved visibility into supply chain management and sales analysis for real-time operational adjustments

Impact #1

Garnered time and cost savings from elimination of wait time for reports and forecasting

Impact #2

Achieved single point of entry to disparate systems – collapsing 100 individual reports into a single QlikView

Impact #3

Improved visibility into supply chain management and sales analysis for real-time operational adjustments

Benefit #1	99% reduction in time spent on sales-related reporting
Benefit #2	Same day turnaround for most report requests

Benefit #1

99% reduction in time spent on sales-related reporting

Benefit #2

Same day turnaround for most report requests

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Lifetime Brands unlocks data in SAP® and other systems for seamless analysis with QlikView®

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