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Month-end reporting cut from 5 days to 4 hours

SECTOR
Retail
SIZE
1,200 staff
LOCATION
UK

THE CHALLENGE

Month-end reporting took a week, and the numbers in finance never matched the numbers in trading. Leadership meetings started with an argument about whose spreadsheet was right.

WHAT WE DID

  1. 01Mapped every KPI in the monthly pack back to its source system
  2. 02Built a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse connecting ERP, POS and finance
  3. 03Agreed one set of metric definitions with finance and trading
  4. 04Delivered a Power BI KPI pack and trained 200+ managers

“DataWorks Labs gave us one version of the truth for the first time. Our leadership team now makes decisions in minutes, not weeks.”

Finance Director, Northwind Retail

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