The UK's leading foodservice supplier challenged De Villiers Walton to deliver an SAP BW-based Sales Force Dashboard solution within an aggressive 9 weeks timeframe.

We delivered.

Project Objectives

• Implement a Portal-based Sales Force Dashboard for the UK's leading food-service supplier
• Integrate with SAP BW and other non-SAP back-end systems to provide the most up-to-date performance reporting information possible
• Provide top down benchmark information between regional teams
• Deploy an intuitive and user friendly user interface 
• Allow users to drill down to the underlying data from the dashboard to address business performance issues

Implementation Highlights

• On time - 9 week implementation ready for the sales force's hardware refresh
• On budget within the fixed price proposal
• Solution utilised leading edge UI technology and SOA architecture providing an extendable platform for future developments such as offline and real time ERP integration
• Innovative and revolutionary user interface
• Ground breaking BW technology was deployed to provide outstanding application performance for the 500 users located around the UK
• Seamlessly transitioned into support 

Benefits

• Tight and seamless integration with existing data in SAP BW and non-SAP systems etc. to provide a consolidated dashboard view of the sales performance data to sales directors and managers
• Revolutionary UI which led to greater user take up, satisfaction and reduced training and roll-out cost
• Significant performance improvements - Time taken to address business performance issues reduced from 3-4 weeks to 1-2 days
• The sales force now pro-actively monitor and improve their performance using the Sales Force Dashboard leading to greater productivity and improved customer satisfaction