RS Components enables its team to focus on business-critical analysis
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- Asia
- Pacific
国家
- Australia
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Singapore
产品
- QlikView
技术栈
- Oracle JDE
- CDC Pivotal
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
适用行业
- 电子产品
适用功能
- 销售与市场营销
- 仓库和库存管理
用例
- 库存管理
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
RS Components is a world-leading distributor of electronic components, and part of Electrocomponents PLC in the United Kingdom, a FTSE public listed company. The global company has over 4,000 employees, while RS Components employs over 1,000 throughout Asia Pacific. The company has a range of 450,000 electronic components and industrial products that it supplies to over 1.6 million customers worldwide in over 80 countries. Products include semiconductors, connectors, capacitors, resistors, LEDs, relays, switches, indicators and power supplies, batteries, cables, control gear, fans, HVAC, security, tools, plumbing, hosing, books, IT, safety and test and measurement products. Its business in Asia Pacific generated GBP 104 million in revenue for the financial year 2009.
挑战
RS Components, as part of the global Electrocomponents PLC group, operates over a large geographical footprint. With the components business being fiercely competitive, the management team considered it mission-critical to be able to make business decisions swiftly. However, their existing decision support system was achieved through the manual consolidation of data directly from their ERP and CRM application systems (JD Edwards and Pivotal). This meant that they were spending too much time on data consolidation before any analysis could be made, delaying important decisions as a result. To tackle this, RS Components realized it needed a management tool or system that could provide strategic insights on the performance of its business across all functions. The system should be able to provide data for their Key Performance Matrixes, and assist management with their strategic discussions thereby improving their decision-making process. In order to achieve this, this system should be able extract data from multiple robust and complex systems spread across a diversed geographical region to provide a common view of the business which everyone in the company could rely on.
解决方案
RS Components implemented the QlikView solution to provide management oversight to its entire business across the Asia Pacific. The solution draws 8 primary data sources from Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, to a centralized repository, reducing reporting time and freeing up resources to concentrate on performing analysis. The RS Components IS team needed to pull data from 8 primary sources, instances of JD Edwards and Pivotal, physically located in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. At each source, data is drawn into QlikView data files daily, and transferred to a central QlikView server for users to analyze business information without having to connect to the actual JD Edwards and Pivotal systems. Data and insights are properly segregated based on user profile. Sensitive data remains secure as user rights are managed and controlled via their Active Directory integration with QlikView.
运营影响
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