As the world’s fourth-largest producer, the Weishardt Group offers a wide range of gelatins and collagen peptides. These products are intended for all pharmaceutical, food, and technical applications. The group aims to better manage its operations and improve the reporting of information to its various business units. That is why it has decided to implement a new BI tool: DigDash Enterprise.
A look back at the solution’s deployment, featuring a testimonial from Franck Lasserre, CIO at the Weishardt Group.
The need for new BI capabilities to manage the group’s operations
“Our company manufactures and distributes lines of gelatins and collagen peptides used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. We operate in several countries and need powerful tools to manage and monitor our business.”
“Until now, we had been using a business intelligence solution that quickly revealed its functional limitations. For example, it didn’t allow us to create interactive dashboards. Given this, we decided to look for a new BI solution.”
DigDash Enterprise: A Flexible and Agile French Solution
“We issued a request for proposals, which included major international software vendors. In addition, DigDash was recommended to me by a network of CIOs with whom I had been in contact. I was pleasantly surprised by the power of their solution.”
DigDash’s real strengths are its accessibility, flexibility, and user-friendliness. In fact, we quickly realized that with DigDash, we could find answers to our questions—and also establish a genuine partnership with them, which isn’t always the case with large software vendors.
“Finally, license management is very simple: there are several types of user licenses. Eventually, we want to share our dashboards with our 450 employees. So it’s helpful to have licenses that can be tailored to our needs.”
BI for More In-Depth Business Analysis
“The rollout of DigDash was very quick and straightforward. We were able to migrate our old databases and dashboards without a hitch. In addition, we received on-site training for all relevant departments. The application integrates easily into our IT system, and the connection to the ERP is a real advantage. In fact, the dashboards are accessible directly through the ERP.”
It’s much easier for users to get started than with our old tool. Business units now have greater visibility into operations, allowing them to take their analyses a step further. They now have access to information they didn’t even realize they needed. Today, we have several dozen users of the solution: every department uses it, from production to procurement. This allows them to monitor highly strategic metrics, such as raw material and transportation costs, inventory levels, and the quantities shipped by country…
“Ultimately, we would like to involve our employees more in management. We plan to do this by giving them access to simplified dashboards. This will allow them to monitor the group’s operations and understand the direction of the business. That is why license management was a major challenge for our group.”