QlikView for Manufacturing & High Tech

Making faster and more profitable
decisions in a highly competitive
and complex environment

The Manufacturing & High Tech Sector comprises the following industries:

Automotive, Industrial & Aerospace
Consumer Products
High Tech
Mill Products
Chemicals

Operate Leaner, Smarter and more Efficiently

Manufacturers sell their products to end customers or to other manufacturers who use the products as components. There are many parties involved in this supply chain with each needing to add value to the end product or service to differentiate themselves and drive competitive advantage. This interdependent and connected value chain relies on transparency and collaboration in order to deliver products at the appropriate cost and quality within stringent and continually evolving environmental and legislative Regulations.

Market success depends on a new business agility that responds rapidly to demand changes, supply chain risks and fluctuating energy, commodity and transport costs — and enables new product innovation by synchronizing activities across functions and processes.

Using the QlikView Business Intelligence (BI) solution, leading manufacturing companies worldwide can:

Gain real-time visibility across the entire supply chain
Measure operational efficiency & increase the effectiveness of process improvement methodologies
Collaborate effectively with suppliers, partners and customers to improve business agility
Mitigate supplier, compliance and cost volatility risks
Maximize marketing and sales efficiency
Gain visibility of inventory across the organization
Optimize innovation processes to drive enhanced time to value
Enable Regulatory, Compliance and Sustainability agendas & obligations

The QlikView Customer Experience

Discover why manufacturing companies worldwide are using QlikView to overcome their Business Intelligence (BI) challenges and improve their business performance.

For Your Industry

QlikView in Action

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Larson Manufacturing

“QlikView has the highest demand than we’ve ever had for any application. We couldn’t roll it out fast enough. People can make decisions based on data as opposed to a hunch.”
Todd Graham,
IT Business Analyst
US Synthetic Corporation

“What was virtually impossible is now possible with QlikView.”
Terry Kavouras
Business Intelligence Manager
Austin Powder

“QlikView was completely different than other products. We could measure success quickly and with minimal investment.”
Rob Wunderlich
Consultant
USS POSCO

“You can have lots of analysis tools that will get you from A to B. QlikView gives you the possibility to go on to C, D, E and as far as you want to go.”
Patrick Laredo
DataWarehouse Manager
Amcor Flexibles

“One reason why we chose QlikView was to quickly develop what we call a ‘fast track solution.’ The specifications for new applications are often defined at [user] seminars. We usually build a functional QlikView application by the end of a seminar.”
Stefan Wesslegård, Data Warehouse Architect, Sandvik Group

“QlikView ultimately accelerates our core business functions in areas such as product lifecycle management, supply chain, finance and feature-testing of our various chipsets”
Steve Rimar
Senior Programmer Analyst, Qualcomm

“QlikView reports cover every area of our business, from finance to inventories to work orders to information that is not part of the ERP system, giving us higher levels of job performance companywide.”
Nigel Tasker
General Manager IT & Business Systems, Weir Services

“We chose QlikView because we could move forward quickly and get results, without having to …make huge, speculative investments in time, money and IT resources.”
Rob Wunderlich
Consultant
USS POSCO

“In four hours, one person achieved with QlikView what teams of IT consultants … couldn’t achieve in a year and a half.”
Michael Korin
CIO
Superior Graphite Company

“By implementing QlikView, we greatly enhanced and extended the life of our existing systems as well as simplified the management reporting.”
Björn Jacobsen
Financial Director, Scania Denmark

“QlikView allows us to target operational issues that need to be addressed. We have been able to identify and focus on the 10% of issues that have been creating 90% of our problems.”
Dominic Verheist
Training and Automation Superintendent, Teck Resources Limited

11,000 users managing 500 Six Sigma projects with QlikView

75% reduction in analysis time for 500 Six Sigma projects

95% reduction in gold lock-up

99% less time to fulfill new BI application requests

99% reduction in time to generate reports

1 week to develop sales and marketing applications

Eliminated thousands of pages of paper reports

Increase business agility with quick, measurable success

Manufacturing companies today require more flexible business models and real-time decision making intelligence. The QlikView business intelligence (BI) solution delivers measurable success quickly with no risk, minimal investment, and without having to commit substantial resources. Anyone within your business, as well as your suppliers and distributors, can use QlikView, with applications customized to each user’s needs.

By the Numbers: Manufacturing

Time to Value

54% Deployed QlikView in
< 1 Month

78% Deployed QlikView in
< 3 Months

2.4 Months to Implement

54% Reduction in Time to Access Information

51% Reduction in Time to Analyze Information
Tangible Benefits

21% Increase in Cash Flow

12% Increase in Revenue

33% Increase in Employee Productivity

17% Decrease in Operating Costs

38% Increase in Customer Satisfaction
Cost of Ownership

55% of the TCO of Other Solutions (Total)

43% of the TCO of Other Solutions (Implementation)

49% of the TCO of Other Solutions (Ongoing Services)

35% Decrease in Existing BI Overhead

28% Decrease in Reporting Overhead
Success & Satisfaction

95% Customer Satisfaction

192% Return on Investment

5.6 Month Payback Period

60% Net Promoter Score

38% Increase in Business Agility