– Visual Mining Products Resources Company 1-800-308-0731 Fonterra Case Study Customer Profile Fonterra, with headquarters in New Zealand and operations across the globe, is the world’s leading exporter of dairy products and is responsible for more than a third of the international dairy trade. Their dairy farmers have long been known for producing quality milk, and today New Zealand is a world leader in large-scale milk procurement and processing. Fonterra’s global supply chain stretches from farms all over New Zealand to customers and consumers in more than 140 countries. Fonterra Co-operative Group is one of the top five dairy companies in the world and is responsible for around 40 percent of the international dairy trade. Business Challenge Fonterra’s Middle East Brands Division (which covers the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States) needed a visually powerful dashboard solution that could: Track and share key performance indicators (KPIs) for sales, inventory, markets, brands and product groups; Share dimensions, filtering, reporting and analysis for internal and external viewers; Transform excel data and present it in a variety of visual styles; and Provide the management team with dashboards to track performance against goals. Solution After reviewing several business intelligence dashboard solutions, Fonterra Brands MEA chose NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD) to provide the dashboard and visualization capabilities they needed to perform comparative analysis, track performance against goals, and present visually appealing dashboards to the executive management team. Results Using NCPD, Fonterra’s Brand Division is able to connect to multiple data sources from the same dashboard, perform quick analysis by switching between various data dimensions and apply the KPIs relevant to their division on the fly. NCPD also supplies the forecasting, data validation and calculations Fonterra relies upon for their day-to-day reporting. “We looked at more expensive solutions but chose NetCharts because we knew we could get the same high quality dashboards at a more cost-effective price,” said Aamir Mehdi, Fonterra Supply Chain Manager in Dubai. “We were also quite impressed with the responsiveness of Visual Mining’s sales and technical service teams; we knew we’d be in good hands if we needed future assistance with NCPD.” At-A-Glance Organization: Fontera Industry: Agriculture Challenge Combine data from across a large, geographically distributed organization in a single, user-friendly dashboard Solution: NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD) Results: One complete business analytics dashboard, fed by multiple data sources Ability for separate company divisions to apply their own dashboard parameters Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and goals-based dashboards Customer Success "We can cut our report creation and delivery time by as much as 50%. That means we can focus more on selling, core product development, and revenue-generating professional services activities." - Transaction Design, Inc Did you know? A run chart, also known as a run-sequence plot is a graph that displays observed data in a time sequence. Want to Get in Touch? Visual Mining Offices Continental U.S. : 800.308.0731 International: +1.301.795.2200 Fax: 301.947.8293 Socialize With Us twitter googleplus linkedin youtube Products Resources Company Sitemap Legal © 1996-2021 Visual Mining, a division of NetCharts-GB. All rights reserved.