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QlikView delivers cool facts and hot applications for Frigoscandia Distribution

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Frigoscandia Distribution, a leading logistics partner in the food industry, was facing several challenges. They wanted to increase control over accounts payable by providing customer-facing employees with accurate payment histories. They also aimed to streamline purchasing processes to lower purchasing costs and improve cash flow. Additionally, they needed to reconcile redundant and outdated data to improve operational efficiency. The company was looking for a solution that could help them achieve these goals and improve their overall business operations. Read More
About Customer	Frigoscandia Distribution AB is a leading logistics partner in the food industry. The company is fully owned by the Norwegian Post and the business is focused on transportation and storage of chilled, dried and frozen products. One of its larger customers is IKEA for whom Frigoscandia manages food logistics all over the world. Ulf Carlsson is the manager of the administrative functions at Frigoscandia and responsible for the corporate QlikView applications. He was also responsible for the evaluation that was carried out in the spring of 2004 that lead to the choice of QlikView as the coordinating analysis and presentation tool for the entire company. Now, several years later, more or less all of the corporate functions are connected to QlikView. Read More
Solution	Frigoscandia deployed QlikView to 150 employees and various customers in record time. With QlikView across 4 functional areas, Frigoscandia now analyzes everything from customer profitability to supply chain efficiency to human resources’ effectiveness – all focused on driving corporate profitability. With QlikView Server and Publisher, management can now access a map that graphically shows results for all business units and allows managers to drill down to more detailed information for further analysis. The company used QlikView to improve the quality of their data by defining criteria for what a customer is, reducing the number of entries in the customer database from 24,000 to 4,000. The same method was used to reduce the supplier list from 14,000 to 3,000. By comparing the in-house databases with official business information, it was possible to use QlikView for automatic correction of errors like customer names or addresses. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Frigoscandia Distribution, a leading logistics partner in the food industry, was facing several challenges. They wanted to increase control over accounts payable by providing customer-facing employees with accurate payment histories. They also aimed to streamline purchasing processes to lower purchasing costs and improve cash flow. Additionally, they needed to reconcile redundant and outdated data to improve operational efficiency. The company was looking for a solution that could help them achieve these goals and improve their overall business operations.

About Customer

Frigoscandia Distribution AB is a leading logistics partner in the food industry. The company is fully owned by the Norwegian Post and the business is focused on transportation and storage of chilled, dried and frozen products. One of its larger customers is IKEA for whom Frigoscandia manages food logistics all over the world. Ulf Carlsson is the manager of the administrative functions at Frigoscandia and responsible for the corporate QlikView applications. He was also responsible for the evaluation that was carried out in the spring of 2004 that lead to the choice of QlikView as the coordinating analysis and presentation tool for the entire company. Now, several years later, more or less all of the corporate functions are connected to QlikView.

Solution

Frigoscandia deployed QlikView to 150 employees and various customers in record time. With QlikView across 4 functional areas, Frigoscandia now analyzes everything from customer profitability to supply chain efficiency to human resources’ effectiveness – all focused on driving corporate profitability. With QlikView Server and Publisher, management can now access a map that graphically shows results for all business units and allows managers to drill down to more detailed information for further analysis. The company used QlikView to improve the quality of their data by defining criteria for what a customer is, reducing the number of entries in the customer database from 24,000 to 4,000. The same method was used to reduce the supplier list from 14,000 to 3,000. By comparing the in-house databases with official business information, it was possible to use QlikView for automatic correction of errors like customer names or addresses.

Impact #1	Dramatically streamlined purchasing process and operations
Impact #2	Improved cash flow and lowered purchasing costs
Impact #3	Reduced business risks with financially borderline companies

Impact #1

Dramatically streamlined purchasing process and operations

Impact #2

Improved cash flow and lowered purchasing costs

Impact #3

Reduced business risks with financially borderline companies

Benefit #1	Reduced the number of entries in the customer database from 24,000 to 4,000
Benefit #2	Reduced the supplier list from 14,000 to 3,000

Benefit #1

Reduced the number of entries in the customer database from 24,000 to 4,000

Benefit #2

Reduced the supplier list from 14,000 to 3,000

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QlikView delivers cool facts and hot applications for Frigoscandia Distribution

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