A Fortune 500 manufacturer with 8,000 employees across 12 plants operated in reporting silos, each location managing its own Excel-based dashboards. We unified operations, finance, and supply chain reporting on a single Tableau Server platform, automating data flows from SAP and enabling self-service analytics for 400+ users.
The client operated 12 manufacturing plants across North America, each generating its own operational, financial, and supply chain reports in Excel. While each plant's reporting was accurate, leadership had no consolidated view of inventory turns, production efficiency, or margin performance across the enterprise. Month-end consolidation took weeks and required manual reconciliation by the finance team.
The company had already invested in SAP ERP and wanted to leverage the data asset they were generating. They needed a modern BI platform that could scale to 400+ users, provide self-service analytics, and reduce the operational burden on their finance and operations teams.
We implemented a three-layer architecture, starting with a rigorous data inventory to map all reporting sources, building automated ETL pipelines from SAP, then deploying Tableau Server with governance, role-based access, and a structured training program.
Manual Excel work eliminated through automated data pipelines and self-service dashboards. Finance team reallocated from consolidation to strategic analysis.
Real-time and near-real-time dashboards replaced weekly Excel refreshes. Operations teams now make decisions on current data, not one-week-old snapshots.
Democratized analytics across all 12 plants. Operations, finance, and supply chain teams all self-service, reducing BI team bottlenecks.
Enterprise BI platform with on-premise deployment, row-level security, and governance across 6 content collections.
Real-time and batch connectors to SAP transactional and BW data, enabling unified source of truth from ERP.
Orchestrated extraction, transformation, and load pipelines using Python, with error handling and reconciliation logic for data quality.
Enterprise data warehouse hosting normalized dimensional models and supporting live Tableau semantic layer and reporting.
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