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Lipari Foods Stays Fresh and Competitive With Information Builders Technology

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Inventory Management Predictive Replenishment Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Lipari Foods, a regional wholesale food distributor, was in need of a self-reporting tool that would provide employees and customers better access to transactional data. The company wanted a self-service BI environment that could provide visibility into every step of a process. Prior to purchasing Information Builders WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform, Lipari’s reporting practices consisted of manual, “one-off” processes in which an IT professional created a specific report in response to a specific business request. Lacking a consistent enterprise strategy, the IT department found itself producing hundreds of unique reports. A massive amount of transactional data was available, but the company lacked self-service reporting tools that would let non-technical workers access, sort, summarize, filter, and visualize the data. Read More
About Customer	Lipari Foods is a regional wholesale food distributor managing a wide range of quality deli, bakery, packaging, seafood, dairy, confections, grocery, food service, and “grab-and-go” products in 12 states in the Midwest and surrounding areas. Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, the company serves up to 5,000 customer locations through 28 depots. Approximately 1,000 employees support Lipari’s continually expanding network of accounts. Companies in the food industry exist in a highly competitive and dynamic environment where the health of the business can change daily. These organizations need to constantly monitor operations to stay efficient. Read More
Solution	Lipari Foods implemented a cohesive enterprise-reporting environment to deliver real-time information and alerts through interactive reports and analytic dashboards – on computers, tablets, and smartphones. The company used Information Builders' WebFOCUS, Maintain, Mobile, Professional Services, Developer Studio, InfoAssist, ReportCaster, Active Reports, Portal, PMF, iWay DataMigrator, and Education. The solution provided a series of exception-based reports that flag anomalies at the start of each day so that buyers, merchandise managers, and shipping personnel can investigate them. WebFOCUS Maintain lets users both read and write to the database, making it easy to set up new items, to make adjustments, and to enter vendor-pricing changes. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Predictive Replenishment

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Lipari Foods, a regional wholesale food distributor, was in need of a self-reporting tool that would provide employees and customers better access to transactional data. The company wanted a self-service BI environment that could provide visibility into every step of a process. Prior to purchasing Information Builders WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform, Lipari’s reporting practices consisted of manual, “one-off” processes in which an IT professional created a specific report in response to a specific business request. Lacking a consistent enterprise strategy, the IT department found itself producing hundreds of unique reports. A massive amount of transactional data was available, but the company lacked self-service reporting tools that would let non-technical workers access, sort, summarize, filter, and visualize the data.

About Customer

Lipari Foods is a regional wholesale food distributor managing a wide range of quality deli, bakery, packaging, seafood, dairy, confections, grocery, food service, and “grab-and-go” products in 12 states in the Midwest and surrounding areas. Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, the company serves up to 5,000 customer locations through 28 depots. Approximately 1,000 employees support Lipari’s continually expanding network of accounts. Companies in the food industry exist in a highly competitive and dynamic environment where the health of the business can change daily. These organizations need to constantly monitor operations to stay efficient.

Solution

Lipari Foods implemented a cohesive enterprise-reporting environment to deliver real-time information and alerts through interactive reports and analytic dashboards – on computers, tablets, and smartphones. The company used Information Builders' WebFOCUS, Maintain, Mobile, Professional Services, Developer Studio, InfoAssist, ReportCaster, Active Reports, Portal, PMF, iWay DataMigrator, and Education. The solution provided a series of exception-based reports that flag anomalies at the start of each day so that buyers, merchandise managers, and shipping personnel can investigate them. WebFOCUS Maintain lets users both read and write to the database, making it easy to set up new items, to make adjustments, and to enter vendor-pricing changes.

Impact #1	WebFOCUS simplifies Lipari’s corporate mergers and acquisitions strategy since it can easily adapt to many types of data and applications.
Impact #2	WebFOCUS can transpose many types of data into a common format, and it doesn’t choke on large data sets or introduce latency during real-time reporting processes.
Impact #3	WebFOCUS facilitates instant information delivery via computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Impact #1

WebFOCUS simplifies Lipari’s corporate mergers and acquisitions strategy since it can easily adapt to many types of data and applications.

Impact #2

WebFOCUS can transpose many types of data into a common format, and it doesn’t choke on large data sets or introduce latency during real-time reporting processes.

Impact #3

WebFOCUS facilitates instant information delivery via computers, tablets, and smartphones.

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Lipari Foods Stays Fresh and Competitive With Information Builders Technology

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