the case study in a nutshell
This client is a leading global logistics service provider, who is facing the challenge of a silos organisation with different sites behaving differently, not sharing data and intelligence. This leads to a sub-optimal operations results that could instead benefit from coherent and unified running. We took the client through building the Enterprise Data Platform that would best fit their structure and need, in order to achieve the One Source of Truth data-set, the basis to develop and exploit common intelligence.
Benefits
A clear view on which technological blocks are needed for the EDP
Data governance clearly defined at regional and global level.
A plan to reach the same level of digital maturity in all countries.
A future-proof data architecture to leverage ML/AI solutions.
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Customer profile
Leading global logistics service provider having business sites at 750 locations worldwide, employs 33,000 people and has an annual turnover of EUR 5.5B.
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Challenges
- Countries are operating in siloed environments and present very different levels of digital maturity and skillsets.
- The client wants to establish a common set of data tools across countries and reach the same level of maturity as one team.
- They are looking for a unified data platform that can simplify data extraction and be used to leverage cross-country data and advanced analytics capabilities.
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Our solution
- Understand the current skills and gaps, technologies used, reporting needs and data sources, through dedicated interviews and questionnaires.
- Provide a shortlist of candidate solutions to build a cloud-based Enterprise Data Platform which covers all regional and global corporate needs.
- Share a data governance structure and an implementation roadmap.
- Support the client to implement the EDP for a few selected use cases.