Key results
Reporting latency dropped from 4 hours to just 20 minutes.
Time spent on report creation and reconciliation cut in half.
Real-time insights across production and logistics accelerated decision-making.
Infrastructure costs reduced by a quarter within 9 months.
About the Client
A mid-sized packaged food manufacturer headquartered in Illinois, supplying frozen and shelf-stable products to national retailers. With multiple plants and a network of regional distributors, the client needed faster, integrated visibility across production, inventory, and outbound shipments.
Key Challenges
Legacy on-prem systems delayed daily production and distribution reports by 4+ hours.
Data silos between ERP, plant systems, and distributor portals caused inconsistencies.
Operations and supply chain managers lacked real-time visibility into product movement and plant throughput.
Our Approach
- Performed cloud readiness assessment and defined a scalable reporting architecture
- Migrated data warehouse workloads to Snowflake hosted on AWS
- Built automated, near real-time pipelines from ERP and distribution systems
Implemented Solution
Cloud Platform Migration
- Moved on-prem SQL-based reporting to Snowflake on AWS
- Established secure, scalable architecture with governed access
- Migrated historical data without disrupting daily operations
Data Engineering & ETL Automation
- Integrated ERP, WMS, and third-party data
- Built transformation models in dbt for consistent production and logistics metrics
- Automated data quality checks and job monitoring
BI Dashboards & Reporting
- Delivered Power BI dashboards for operations, plant, and distribution leads
- Enabled hourly refresh for key metrics like throughput, order fill rate, and spoilage
- Created plant-level and SKU-level drilldowns with role-based access
Technologies Used
