Power BI Solution for Enterprise-Wide Sales Visibility Delivered in 7 weeks

Name: Versich
Brand: Versich
Rating: 4.9 (142 reviews)

Power BI Solution for Enterprise-Wide Sales Visibility Delivered in 7 weeks

Weeks to Full Delivery

10+

Geographically Distributed DBs

Expert Team Members Deployed

Continents with Sales Visibility

Background The Client Challenge

Our client helps manufacturers run their supply chains end to end sourcing, quality control, finishing, and shipment through a global network of suppliers and logistics partners spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

The client had been tracking sales performance the only way its SAP ERP allowed: through the system's built-in reporting. That approach had run its course:

The ERP simply couldn't drill into sales by country, customer, or product the way the business needed
Sales data lived across more than ten regional databases spread over three continents, with no single place to see how the business was doing as a whole
Margin and sales figures sat in regional silos, so comparing performance across regions or against targets meant piecing things together manually
Manual reporting couldn't keep pace with how fast the business was moving

The client wanted a modern BI platform with automated data flows and dashboards built around how the business actually operates, and brought in Versich given the team's Azure and Power BI background to deliver it quickly.

Our Solution

Discovery and Architecture

Put together a small, focused delivery team spanning project management, business analysis, data engineering, and DevOps
Surveyed every regional database, the data flows feeding into them, and the gaps in the client's existing reporting
Gathered detailed sales analytics requirements covering every region the client operates in
Confirmed Azure as the right fit, building on the client's existing Microsoft footprint
Laid out an end-to-end architecture covering ingestion, storage, transformation, and reporting

Building the Pipeline

Used Azure Data Factory to pull the relevant fields out of each regional database
Landed raw data in Azure Blob Storage, with each source database mapped to its own dedicated space for clean handling
Converted validated files into a more storage- and query-efficient format before further processing
Aggregated and loaded the processed data into Azure SQL Database, now the single place all sales reporting draws from

Reporting and Access

Built a sales view giving leadership a path from global totals down to an individual customer or product country, then customer, then product line
Built a separate margin view, letting account managers and leadership see profitability by customer, product, and responsible account manager
Gave both views full drill-down so users can go as granular as the question requires
Locked down access by region and role through Azure Active Directory, with row-level controls so nobody sees more than their role calls for

Business Impact

Global Sales Visibility in One Place

For the first time, the client has a unified view of sales performance across all geographies with the ability to drill from global totals down to individual customer and product level across Americas, Europe, and Asia.

SAP Reporting Replaced with Interactive Dashboards

The limitations of SAP's built-in reporting are fully replaced by automated, always-updated Power BI dashboards eliminating manual report building and giving users instant access to the insights they need.

Margin Visibility Across Customers & Products

The product margin dashboard gives sales leadership clear visibility into profitability by customer, item, and account manager enabling smarter pricing, negotiation, and sales strategy decisions

Full Solution Delivered in 7 Weeks

From discovery to go-live in just 7 weeks the client gained a production-ready, enterprise-grade BI solution without a lengthy implementation cycle.

Power BI Solution for Enterprise-Wide Sales Visibility Delivered in 7 weeks

Background The Client Challenge