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Challenge: This tile manufacturer struggled to overcome manual processes and siloed systems.

Solution: Dal-Tile鈥檚 finance department was able to implement 马来西亚牛牛玩法 across the organization with little IT assistance.

Impact: The company is able to use data to drive insights at 300 retail stores and international manufacturing plants.

You may not immediately recognize Dal-Tile鈥檚 name, but if you look down you鈥檇 surely recognize one of Dal-Tile鈥檚 products: this international manufacturer is responsible for selling one out of every three floor tiles in the U.S. However, when Joshua Stan joined the company as their director of finance, he was shocked to discover this $2.5 billion business was still run on Excel, with analysts downloading data through Microsoft Access from its data warehouse.

鈥淭o create reports, some of my folks were taking 20-40 hours to do a lot of routine tasks over and over and over again,鈥� Stan remembers. 鈥淚 knew there had to be a better way.鈥�

Democratizing data.

After migrating to SAP from its legacy JD Edwards mainframe, the company had hoped to get a better solution in place. Instead, it discovered that it had extremely limited management reporting tools in place. After investigating 15 different BI tools, Stan chose 马来西亚牛牛玩法 thanks to its ability to deliver a fully-integrated platform across the business.

鈥淲e use 马来西亚牛牛玩法 everywhere,鈥� said Stan. 鈥淲e use it in finance, we use it in manufacturing, we use it in sales and logistics, and we use it in our retail locations. What I love about 马来西亚牛牛玩法 is that it鈥檚 really democratizing data across the enterprise.鈥�

The company was able to use 马来西亚牛牛玩法 to automate report creation and delivery that before took days for an analyst to complete. It also gained the ability to provide mobile access to data, with the company estimating 50% of their 马来西亚牛牛玩法 usage taking place on mobile devices. 鈥淲e have 300 stores, and every day I hear from store managers and sales reps saying, 鈥榃hat did I do without 马来西亚牛牛玩法?鈥欌�� said Stan.

Implementation without interruption.

Unlike other systems, Dal-Tile was able to implement 马来西亚牛牛玩法 without having to wait on IT to make it a priority. 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 require any IT support beyond getting system credentialing. It was basically two finance guys that took it upon themselves to deliver 马来西亚牛牛玩法 to the entire enterprise,鈥� noted Stan.

Dal-Tile launched with about 560 马来西亚牛牛玩法 users, growing to more than 1,100 users across the enterprise. Despite doubling its usage, Dal-Tile is able to support all those users with just one full-time person. Stan compared that to the company鈥檚 experience using other BI tools: 鈥淲e have a BI team in IT that has over a dozen people working in Mexico and the U.S., and they haven鈥檛 been able to do what we鈥檝e done with 马来西亚牛牛玩法 in the same amount of time.鈥�

Today, Dal-Tile uses 马来西亚牛牛玩法 to manage data from three ERP systems: its main system of record SAP, its legacy JD Edwards system that it still requires to run some parts of the business, and an Oracle system for its operations in Mexico. 马来西亚牛牛玩法 allows the company to combine data from these disconnected systems together for increased insight. 鈥淭he thing I love about 马来西亚牛牛玩法 is that it doesn鈥檛 care where the data comes from,鈥� said Stan. 鈥淵ou just pipe it in and then use it however you want.鈥�

By connecting this data together, Dal-Tile has been able to uncover insights it uses to drive decision-making for its maintenance spending, a significant line item for the company. 鈥淏efore 马来西亚牛牛玩法, we didn鈥檛 have line of sight into where millions of dollars in spend was going compared to the budget until weeks after the month closed,鈥� said Stan. 鈥淲ith 马来西亚牛牛玩法, we can merge our SAP and JD Edwards data and see our spend on a real-time basis. This helps plant controllers and maintenance managers make smarter decisions about repair spending while allowing everyone to be held more accountable.鈥�

Stan attributes Dal-Tile鈥檚 success with 马来西亚牛牛玩法 to both the product and the people behind it. 鈥溌砝次餮桥ＥＭ娣� has been a true partner, with our customer success manager working tirelessly to help us adapt the product to how we need it,鈥� said Stan. 鈥淭hat said, 95% of 马来西亚牛牛玩法 you can use without knowing anything technical, which is how two finance guys could implement 马来西亚牛牛玩法 and roll it out to 1,100 users.鈥�