QlikView provides an “aha” experience for drapery specialist ADO

ADO Gardinenwerke, a leading manufacturer of drape material and decorative fabric in Germany, was facing challenges with its existing business intelligence tool integrated in the ERP system. The tool was unable to handle the high volume of data that needed to be analyzed for ADO’s sophisticated reporting system. Questions such as sales trends for specific customers, big sellers in various countries or regions, seasonal deviations in sales, and overall sales trend for individual models could not be answered efficiently. The tool required a massive amount of in-house and outside development to create reports and answer new questions. Additionally, data consistency was not always guaranteed and there was insufficient capacity to process mass data, leading to extremely long response times. The system was also inflexible and slow, failing to provide the necessary benchmarks and reports at the level of quality required for optimum data analysis.

ADO Gardinenwerke is a leading manufacturer of drape material and decorative fabric in Germany. The company was founded in 1954 and has since grown to become the largest German manufacturer in its industry, with annual sales approaching €130 million. ADO employs 1,350 workers worldwide, with approximately half of them working at the headquarters in Aschendorf, where more than 90 percent of the drapes and decorative fabrics are produced. The company also has a plant in the USA, a sewing factory in Poland, and a small production facility for voile fabric in Indonesia. In Germany alone, ADO supplies around 6,000 warehouses, interior design outlets, and other resellers with drape material and decorative fabrics from its product line of 50,000 different articles.