Mayo Hardware Choose Qlik Sense And Inphinity For Seamless Sales Budget Planning

Distributing products to major retailers internationally requires very efficient supply chain, sales, marketing and support services management. This can only be achieved using robust IT systems and data discovery tools.

Mayo Hardware uses the Qlik Sense data analytics platform together with Inphinity Forms for data discovery, visual data analysis, reporting and budgeting. This transformative solution has been developed by our partner Emark APAC.

“Before Forms we were using Excel spreadsheets. Despite months spent building the templates, we were not able to achieve a seamless planning process mainly due to the complexity, manual steps that are prone to errors and difficult consolidation of multiplne spreadsheets. We needed a governed solution, unified front-end and automation of manual calculation steps.”

Jeff Brown – General Manager Supply Chain, Mayo Hardware

One of the main needs was to give business users a tool they can work on without any problems. The tool would need to be simple, but able to provide broad analytical capabilities, much broader than excel. In addition, it was important to have a solution that is transparent, to avoid a “black box” tool in which no one knows how the final outcome was calculated.

“The implementation of Sales Planning in Forms took us just 4 weeks – incredible achievement compared to our previous planning solution in Excel, which took us months to build.”

Jeff Brown – General Manager Supply Chain, Mayo Hardware

Mayo chose Qlik certified data input extension Inphinity Forms because it enables users to input their plans directly within the Qlik Sense interface. “It is convenient for users to have everything in one platform and al the data was already in Qlik, so the whole process of data preparation was faster.”

15 business users from Mayo Hardware are building sales budgets for 3 countries, 3 different business units, hundreds of customer groups and thousands of products using Qlik natively integrated write-back extension, Inphinity Forms. The most important enhancements that it brought to their processes are: