Better Business Decisions with SAP HANA

How can you transform your business to compete in the global market? One essential building block is the capability to use real-time information to operate with less risk and more reward. We have helped several customers to make faster and more informed business decisions, with our real-time analytics coupled with SAP-driven business processes: 

Real-time sales and inventory reporting
A large consumer goods distributor in the Gulf faced issues in decision making from a lack of real-time data, slower system performance during month-end closing and inaccurate forecasting. The firm wanted a one-touch business view of its critical business segments.

We implemented an integrated HANA-based solution based on industry best practices for real-time operational reporting and delivered mobile-enabled Web reports and dashboards for executive management. This resulted in:  

• 12X faster daily report run-time with key inventory reports run-time reduced from 2 minutes to less than 10 seconds
• 60% increase in user BI adoption through mobility enabling an on-the-go culture
• Optimum stock maintenance across business units with exponential savings in cost
• Complete inventory operations across three countries now managed at the touch of an iPad, which provides operational excellence
• Real-time alerts on stock replenishment

Read report: Visions of the Auto Industry 2025

Engineering company improves customer insight
A $32-billion U.S.-based engineering company handled BI requirements through dashboards and web application design reports that led to a lack of self-service capabilities and engaging visualizations. The client wanted to move towards more intuitive web-based reporting to increase user satisfaction and drive faster insights into business data.

We employed a rapid prototyping approach by creating wireframes for quick wins. Our Agile Development methodology resulted in short development cycles and faster time to market. This resulted in:  

• On-demand, on-device, on-premise delivery of BI
• Increased levels of BI usage and adoption by users
• Insights on big picture as well as granular level in a single view for top management
• Significant improvement in reporting performance

Multinational food and beverage firm rationalizes inventory reporting
A $66-billion, U.S.-based leading multinational food and beverage firm wanted to rationalize its report inventory and report bucketing. The client’s business functions were not able to visualize a consistent transaction view.

We carried out an assessment for rationalizing the to-be-migrated inventory and leveraged Factory Model for iterative migration. We equipped the client’s end users with our in-house tools to perform purging and archiving. This resulted in:  

• Optimized business with objects environment utilization through elimination of duplicate and trivial inventories
• Dashboards with what-if analysis to help quantify data quality issues
• Drill down-reporting for detailed analysis

Learn more about Cognizant's dedicated SAP analytics practice here.