Princes Group is an international food and drink group involved in the manufacture, import and distribution of branded and customer own-brand products. Customers include major supermarkets, convenience stores, foodservice operators, wholesale suppliers and other food manufacturers. Princes’ brands and products span over 20 different categories including fish, meat, fruit, vegetables, soups, pastes, pasta, cooking sauces, edible oils and a broad range of soft drinks sectors.

After a series of user experience workshops, observing the processes and user interaction involved, the Bluestonex design team began iterating low fidelity dashboard designs.

As an SAP Partner and User Experience (UX) specialist Bluestonex reviewed options from both a tactical level and strategic view point. It was proposed that Princes Foods adopt SAP Analytics Cloud as the best available tool to build a Sales dashboard for the initial proof of concept. Key stakeholders were engaged to ensure use of the right data and optimum presentation in the form of charts on the dashboard. Pilot users commented that the dashboards are very responsive and can be accessed easily on any device.

The analytical stories gave the stakeholders many benefits. Some of them include :

• Visual display of the Daily Sales Report
• Better insights of the sales data
• Ability to interact with data
• Increased efficiency and productivity as they do not have to look at tabular report and then derive conclusion
• Drilldown capability to see material groups and customer groups for sectors and customers
• Top/Bottom 5 material groups or customer groups