How our Power BI solution assisted a logistics client

The client is a renowned supply chain and logistics provider company in the US, offering multimodal transportation services and third-party logistics. Our client wanted an intelligent order management analytics and clear visibility into logistics data, profit and operational efficiency.

Client: Logistics

Services: Logistics, Power BI, Data

Year: 2022

Key Challenges

Client struggled with poor visibility into logistics data, vehicle health, weather conditions or a blocked route
They were squandering their efforts, time and money by generating static reports that lacked substantial value
The use of ERP did not resolve issues with reporting and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Client faced challenges with analytics and reporting as they had separate SQL databases (DBs) for multiple locations
Client wanted interactive dashboards that provide advanced user experience (UX), real-time data, historical data for trends comparison, and actionable insights

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Key Challenges
Solution
Benefits

Solution

Sparity consolidated all data from multiple location in a single Azure Data Warehouse
Developed a process that replicates the original data into Azure Synapse Analytics
Created Azure Analysis Services Tabular Model to make sure optimal performance for all calculations and reports
Created numerous interactive dashboards that analyzes different parameters such as Time to completion, Partial Shipments vs. Not Shipped Orders vs. Total Number of Orders, Rejected and rerouted shipments, Orphan shipments, Shipping cost vs. customer charged, and more to gain deeper insights
Power BI solution enabled in-house data science teams to carry out deeper analysis of the most important supply chain KPIs

Benefits

38% decrease in delayed shipments
Reduced the average time to completion
30% decrease in shipping cost
Enhanced invoice control and management

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