Centralising Data Across a Manufacturing Group

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Centralising Data Across a Manufacturing Group

Key Concepts

SQL, Azure, ERP and MES System, Medallion Architecture

Overview

A high-end manufacturing service group had recently expanded through the acquisition of several businesses. Each plant operated independently using different ERP and MES systems. Consequently, the finance team faced the significant challenge of manually gathering financial data from various systems, consolidating it, and preparing executive-level reports.

The team faced few challenges:

Multiple ERP and MES systems across newly acquired plants

Lack of standardisation in financial data and reporting formats

Manual collection, export, and transformation of data using Excel

Significant time spent reconciling and preparing group financial reports

Our Solution

We partnered closely with the Group Head of Finance to design and implement a centralised data and reporting platform, following these key steps:

Business Benefits

Standardisation Across Plants

Identified and aligned differences in reporting formats to enable consistent, comparable group reporting.

Efficiency Gains

Eliminated manual Excel exports and consolidations, saving the finance team significant time and effort.

Self-Service Analytics

Empowered the finance team to create and explore their own reports using group-level standardised data.

Operational Optimisation

Enabled better OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) tracking and improved visibility into Inventory, Purchasing, Sales, and Cashflow management.

CONCLUSION

Through a thoughtful combination of Azure infrastructure, data engineering, and BI development, we transformed a highly manual, error-prone financial reporting process into a scalable, self-service analytics platform for the finance team and executive leadership.

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