Customer Profitability Analysis using Data Warehouse and IntraNet Jukka Virtanen Accounting Manager Valio Ltd Domestic Sales
Agenda Valio presentation Niklas Data Presentation Aims in project Actions in project History of the project Actions Application Results of the project
VALIO Group, general Established in 1905 Owners 38 diaries Share of Finland s dairy milk > 69 % Employees in the end of 1998 Valio Ltd 3 800 Valio Group 4 300
VALIO Group, general Domestic sales International operations FIM million 182
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VALIO Group, exports Fresh product exports started 1992 Close to 400 items Main export countries Sweden, the Baltic States and Russia Most of the products manufactured in Finland Functional foods containing lactobacillus GG world wide success
VALIO Domestic Sales Customers 22 000 Products 800 Terminals 10 Sales Offices 8 Sales Personnel (telephone) 80 Sales Representatives 80 Order lines per day 150 000
VALIO Domestic Sales Total 22 000 Customers: Retailers 5 000 Groceries, stores, supermarkets Chains, wholesalers, cash-and-carry shops 16 000 Kiosks, snack shops, quick shops etc. Restaurants, café s Schools, hospitals, day care s Industry 1 000 Bakeries, sweets etc.
NIKLAS DATA: Group Founded 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden A 100% SAS focus ever since SAS Institute Quality Partner 1994 and Charter member of SAS Institutes Rapid Warehousing Program 1995 A European focus since 1995 with headquarters in Amsterdam ND Academy and European Competence areas 1997
NIKLAS DATA OY Founded 1996 23 employees w. 4+ years average SAS expertise 30+ Customers from finance, manufacturing, telecom, wholesale&retail and public services sector. Close cooperation within Niklas Data Group
NIKLAS DATA OY: Customer Care
AIMS: Information Needs Possibility to check customer / product profitability Ad hoc queries expensive Important to identify unprofitable customers / chains unprofitable products / product groups History information Monthly based 13 months and summary from previous year
AIMS: Needs for Software Stabile Software Software with a lot of new versions expensive Information in one screen No scrollable screens Clearness of the screen important Easy and quick information delivery around the country Easy to educate users
ACTIONS: History of Sales Information System 1985 Vtx -based application with ready made and dynamic pages Customer Info System Amounts Net Sales Discounts Purchase Prices No activity cost allocated to customers 1995 Pilot version - Excel Some activity cost allocated to customers
ACTIONS: History of Sales Information System 1996 Started definition of the Customer Profitability Application - AKU Customer approach 1997 AKU in production 1998 Started definition of the expansion of Customer Profitability Application - AKU2 Customer / Product approach AKU2 in production on October 1998
ACTIONS: Why WEB? Easy and quick way to deliver information around the country Explorer is enough in PC s No extra investments for PC s No extra install costs Familiar for everyone - users don t need much education Easy to handle user s rights Most of the new reporting applications are made to WEB Functionality similar in different applications
ACTIONS: Why SAS/IntrNet? Easy to control responsible between partners Modern, working techniques Easy to expand versatile graphics More efficient and fluent use of SAS
ACTIONS: Used Software On PC s Internet Explorer 4.02 On Server WEB Server SAS Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0 SAS 6.12
ACTIONS: Three parties VALIO NIKLAS DATA OY SAS -application with Data Warehouse HTML -pages with Template technique ICL DATA OY Input Data IntraNet User Interface with functionality
DATA FLOW VAX - VMS / ESAT Basic Data from area VAX - VMS / ISA Basic Data from area UNIX / AKU SAS Data Warehouse ASCII infiles VAX - VMS / PKV02 Bookkeeping -files VAX - ALPHA / VALAS Discounts, etc. UNIX / VALTA2 Oracle Product -Information
DATA FLOW ASCII Initial Data BATCH PROCESSING SAS DW PRODUCT INFORMATION from ORACLE ORACLE PRODUCT GROUP INFORMATION from DW SAS- and WEB - SERVER Internet Explorer 4.02
COMBINATIONS AVAILABLE Preselections: time area All products All customers Product groups Customer groups Products Customers SAS DW Oracle
Application 125 Users around the country 20 extremely active users Directors, Key customer managers, Sales persons 2500-3000 Queries in month Most interesting screens Type of orders Turnover of Customer / Customer Group Costs by Activity Need of space about 140 Gigabytes in Unix
APPLICATION: Pre-selections
APPLICATION: Turnover of Customer / Customer Group
APPLICATION: Costs by activity
APPLICATION: Type of Orders
APPLICATION: Type of Orders
APPLICATION: Turnover by Products / Product Groups
APPLICATION: Customers Turnover by Product Groups
RESULTS: Achieved Benefits Easy and quick to get profitability information from Customers / Customer Groups Products / Product Groups Easy and cheap to update Software Quick and simple to educate users
Customer Profitability analysis using Data Warehouse and IntraNet Jukka Virtanen Accounting Manager Valio Ltd Domestic Sales Valio One of the largest foodstuff companies in Finland Biggest Finnish Dairy Producer with net sales of 8 Billion FIM in 1997 Manufacturing and wholesaling Dairy Products Volumes in Domestic Sales: Customers 22 000 Products 1 000 Terminals 10 Sales offices 7 Sales personnel (telephone) 100 Sales Representatives 80 Order lines per day 150 000 Customers: Total 22 000 customers 5 000 Resellers Groceries, stores, supermarkets etc. Chains, wholesalers, cash-and-carry shops 16 000 Kiosks, snack shops, quick shops etc. Restaurants, café s Schools, hospitals, day care s 1 000 Industry Bakeries, sweets etc.
History of Sales Information System: 1985 Vtx -based application with ready made and dynamic pages Customer Info System Amounts Net Sales, discounts, purchase prices No activity cost allocated to customers 1995 Pilot version - Excel 1996 Started definition of the customer profitability application - AKU 1997 AKU in production 1998 Started definition of the expansion of the customer profitability application - AKU2 AKU2 in production on September 1998 WHY WEB? Easy and quick way to deliver information around the country Explorer is enough in PC s Familiar for everyone - users doesn t need much education All the new applications are made to WEB Easy to handle users rights WHY SAS/IntrNet? Easy to contron responsible between partners Modern, working techniques Easy to expand versatile graphics More efficient and fluent use of SAS
Used Software On PC s Internet Explorer 4.2 On Server WEB Server Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0 SAS SAS 6.12 Three parties: Valio Niklas Data Oy DW SAS application Template technique ICL Data Oy Input Data IntraNet user interface IntraNet -Experiences Software development is not stabile, a lot of new versions Plenty of work -> more expences Layout of the IntraNet screens Information in one screen - as little scrollable screens as possible Clearness of the screen is important No space for many graphics logos Special features may first admire, but not in everyday business use