One source of truth across 40,000 port pairs
ECU Worldwide is one of the largest less-than-container-load shippers on earth. It ran 2,400 trade routes across 180 countries on 200+ operational reports — and still could not answer, from one place, whether a lane was making money.
Thirty years of growth, forty non-standard sources
Pain points
- No single source of truth.
- Data used primarily for operational reports, not decisions.
- Profitability, business performance and operations tracked by hand.
Scale of complexity
- Operating across 75+ countries with multiple clusters.
- 3 product lines, 6 data centres and 40 non-standardised sources.
- Fragmented processes and unresolved master-data issues.
- Hybrid data sources and M&A growth driving silos.
- 200+ operational reports on Qlik, none giving a management view.
- Highly complex transformation across varied data submission forms.
A control tower, and the data plumbing to feed it
Supply chain control tower
A connected view of critical business KPIs and the events moving them — improving profitability and daily operations, accelerating sales, and predicting disruption.
Data management at operating scale
100+ daily schedules processing 300K records a day, integrated across 30 systems and feeding 100+ Power BI reports.
What changed
Sales growth
Across 20+ countries, doubling earnings from 2018 to 2021.
Less processing time
Through centralised data management and automated dashboards.
More customer adoption
On the back of comprehensive sales and customer KPI reporting.
Productivity boost
With KPI reporting covering every productive team.