
CASE STUDY: WICKES
Wickes Suppliers can now access daily updated sales, stock, finance and marketing data giving near real time visibility.
PROJECT INFORMATION
In 2016, the system was ready for improvement, particularly on the merchant side. After consideration, Qlik technology was chosen because of its analytics and dashboarding capabilities. More specifically, the Qlik Analytics Platform was chosen because it allows you to provision dashboard views and a variety of different objects onto a webpage for external consumption
THE RELATIONSHIP
Challenges Solved
Helps their operations become much slicker and far more dynamic
Fencing suppliers use i-supply to work out the demand at store level of their top four products. They can be discerning in where they send panels to, avoiding those who already have stock or who, historically, for whatever reason have not experienced a high level of sales.
THE IMPROVEMENTS
(Market leader saw 50%)
tracked and measured.
"This project flew, people can’t believe how quickly the project landed. This is because Catalyst are skilled at finding the best solution for their customers."
"A great example of the Catalyst way – agile enough to be able to reprioritise to ensure Wickes’ customers are happy. They help us to build BI that gives people the motivation factor"
"We’ve always been quite a heavy user of i-supply, but since the COVID-19 lockdown (and the increase of shopper demand), the daily sales analysis and split of online/c&c, and visibility of the distribution/weight of sales has become invaluable.
It has allowed us to firstly gain insight into this quite unique situation, but also to support and help our supply chain colleagues with potential forecast demand. We can see adapting shopper habits and SKU’s experiencing increased demand.
This has enabled us to support our supply chain through more accurate forecasting and by identifying a 50 SKU ‘priority list’ of products the factories could focus production on, whilst minimising lost sales."