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Pikolinos Speeds Up Decision Making With QlikView

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Retail
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Pikolinos Intercontinental, a leader in the Spanish footwear manufacturing industry, needed a business intelligence (BI) tool to help managers make decisions based on information shown in scorecards which, in turn, brought together information from different systems. The company quickly opted for QlikView because it met all its requirements. Amongst the criteria that prompted the company to choose QlikView, Ortiz points to “its fast implementation time compared with other BI tools and its ease of use, delivered through intuitive, visual display of data.” Read More
About Customer	Pikolinos Intercontinental is one of the leaders in the Spanish footwear manufacturing industry. It is part of Grupo Pikolinos, a group of footwear and accessories companies including Martinelli, Pikostore, Pies Cuadrados, and Vabene. At present, it exports 80 per cent of its products abroad, principally to the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Set up in 1984, Pikolinos’s guiding principle has always been to focus on design, quality and originality to produce unique shoes. Since its inception, the company’s philosophy has been to combine this concept with use of the latest technology, providing customers with top quality footwear. Pikolinos is based in the town of Elche in Alicante and has around 100 employees. In 2009 it posted profits of €3 million with turnover of €60 million. Read More
Solution	QlikView deployment at Pikolinos has speeded up decision making in all areas and provided greater control of key indicators. These include among others sales, warehouse movements, performance targets, materials required, and invoicing. The application was deployed with Windows Client and consolidates SQL Server, Excel, and Access databases, and different flat files. Twenty-five users are working with QlikView, including senior managers and area managers, handling a total of 140GB of entries. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Retail

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Pikolinos Intercontinental, a leader in the Spanish footwear manufacturing industry, needed a business intelligence (BI) tool to help managers make decisions based on information shown in scorecards which, in turn, brought together information from different systems. The company quickly opted for QlikView because it met all its requirements. Amongst the criteria that prompted the company to choose QlikView, Ortiz points to “its fast implementation time compared with other BI tools and its ease of use, delivered through intuitive, visual display of data.”

About Customer

Pikolinos Intercontinental is one of the leaders in the Spanish footwear manufacturing industry. It is part of Grupo Pikolinos, a group of footwear and accessories companies including Martinelli, Pikostore, Pies Cuadrados, and Vabene. At present, it exports 80 per cent of its products abroad, principally to the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Set up in 1984, Pikolinos’s guiding principle has always been to focus on design, quality and originality to produce unique shoes. Since its inception, the company’s philosophy has been to combine this concept with use of the latest technology, providing customers with top quality footwear. Pikolinos is based in the town of Elche in Alicante and has around 100 employees. In 2009 it posted profits of €3 million with turnover of €60 million.

Solution

QlikView deployment at Pikolinos has speeded up decision making in all areas and provided greater control of key indicators. These include among others sales, warehouse movements, performance targets, materials required, and invoicing. The application was deployed with Windows Client and consolidates SQL Server, Excel, and Access databases, and different flat files. Twenty-five users are working with QlikView, including senior managers and area managers, handling a total of 140GB of entries.

Impact #1	Cost saving from the information shown in the scorecards
Impact #2	Faster decision making
Impact #3	Visual and intuitive to use

Impact #1

Cost saving from the information shown in the scorecards

Impact #2

Faster decision making

Impact #3

Visual and intuitive to use

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Pikolinos Speeds Up Decision Making With QlikView

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