Boosting Retail Performance with Real-Time Data
CLIENT SUCCESS STORY
Company Highlights
Introduction
An online retailer with over 3 million customers leveraged Matillion, Snowflake, and Power BI to gain a comprehensive daily view of their operations. This solution enabled them to measure orders, gross margin, cost of goods sold, advertising effectiveness, and other key retail metrics. These metrics can now be quickly compared to plans and previous years’ performance.
Challenge
The client needed to determine their current sales position against the yearly plan and understand various metrics such as cost of goods sold, order cancellation rate, sales by distribution channels, and year-to-date performance compared to the previous year. Pomerol Partners developed dashboards that deliver all these metrics to the executive team, updated three times daily. This allows the retailer to adjust business operations based on accurate and near real-time data.
Solution
Pomerol Partners created clear and accurate Power BI dashboards, enabling the client to review sales metrics in near real-time. These dashboards are supported by Matillion, which efficiently moves, cleans, transforms, and provisions the necessary data for accurate reporting. The data is stored in a Snowflake data warehouse.
The combination of Power BI, Matillion, and Snowflake provides the client with an enterprise-scalable product at a very low cost.
Result
The feedback from the management team has been extremely positive. The dashboards are used daily to better manage operations. Pomerol Partners continues to work with this client to expand reporting capabilities in other areas of their business.