Business Intelligence Reporting for a Retail Chain of Hypermarkets

The client is a US-based retailer with a large number of hypermarkets in different states offering health and wellness, groceries and consumables. The client wanted a 360-degree view of sales across the different stores with centralized reporting to track & monitor KPIs for making informed decisions.

Client: Retail

Services: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data, Power BI

Year: 2022

Key Challenges

The retail client was looking for a reporting and analysis module that would provide real-time insights with centralized reporting to track & monitor KPIs in their operations across all of the client’s locations throughout many states.
The client wanted a customizable data visualization tool that would show the store’s sales data as a graphical representation for better analysis and faster decision-making
The client wanted to build a sales dashboard that would give them all the information about their business that they needed in one, easy-to-access place for gaining accurate insights into the overall sales trends of their business
The client was looking for a reliable and affordable service provider to assist them in implementing the BI solution for their business.

Table of Contents

Key Challenges
Solution
Benefits

Solution

Sparity meticulously studied the client’s requirements and zeroed in on Microsoft Power BI- and set up the client’s BI environment using Microsoft’s Power BI visualization tool and SQL Server
By analyzing their business needs, developed a role-based BI reporting system with dashboards for CEO summaries, strategies, and more
Seamlessly integrated different applications from different departments to provide a single source of truth and ensure data quality, reliability, and availability for effective analysis
Designed simple dashboard for displaying key sales metrics such as best-selling items, sales by employee, sales by food category, profit margin, total sales per hour, day, week, and month, and more
Designed standardized reports with themes & templates that show changes in patterns when inputs are altered
Provided comprehensive hands-on training and consulting for better usability
Sparity suggested a number of changes to the dashboard’s structure and reports in order to make them more appealing and valuable. These included moving reports around and adding more visual experiences

Benefits

100% visibility into the sales pipeline, including the ability to track and visualize key metrics and developments
Store-wise analysis over specific time and metrics to compare sales with the previous years
Over 35% accuracy in the forecasting of future KPIs
3x improvement in effective decision making
60% client retention with optimum quality
Enhanced inter-departmental collaboration by 35%
Identified grey areas that needed improvements

Book A Demo

Explore Our BI & Data Migration Solutions

Looking to take the next step in your analytics modernization journey? Explore Sparity’s proven migration accelerators designed to help you transition faster with reduced cost and risk.