Scalable Power BI and Data Warehouse Solution for a Beverage Manufacturer

Scalable Power BI and Data Warehouse Solution for a Beverage Manufacturer
End-to-End Delivery

5Months

End-to-End Delivery

Data Sources Integrated

6+

Data Sources Integrated

OLAP Cubes Built

3

OLAP Cubes Built

Automated Data Refresh

100%

Automated Data Refresh

Background The Client Challenge

Our client is a large Australian beverage manufacturer and distributor supplying supermarket chains, hospitality venues, and independent retailers across the Asia-Pacific region. The company manages a broad product portfolio spanning soft drinks, energy beverages, and premium water brands with operations covering manufacturing, supply chain, wholesale distribution, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce channels.

As the business expanded, the volume and complexity of data generated across its operations grew rapidly. Data from manufacturing, sales, distribution, e-commerce, finance, and external market sources was stored across multiple on-premises and cloud systems with no integration layer making enterprise-wide analysis slow, unreliable, and heavily dependent on manual processes. The key challenges the client faced included:

  • Data scattered across ERPs, internal databases, SharePoint, partner Excel reports, and e-commerce platforms with no unified view of business performance
  • Legacy reporting relied on manual data extraction and reconciliation a slow, error-prone process that consumed significant time from the finance and operations teams
  • No transparency in data flows business users had limited visibility into how figures were calculated or where data originated
  • The existing system could not scale with business growth adding new data sources or report types required substantial IT effort and long lead times
  • No analytics sandbox data analysts had no safe environment to run experiments without risking impact on live production data

The company partnered with Versich with extensive expertise in BI implementation and data warehousing to design and build a fully scalable, cloud-based BI solution integrating all data sources and delivering self service analytics across the entire business.

Our Solution

Discovery and Solution Planning

Discovery and Solution Planning

  • Ran discovery sessions with stakeholders across finance, sales, operations, and e-commerce to capture pain points and reporting needs
  • Audited the legacy reporting setup end to end, mapping every existing data source and how data actually moved between systems, to inform the new architecture
  • Designed a cloud-based Azure architecture able to take in data from every existing source, store it centrally, and serve it back out through reporting
  • Laid out a phased delivery plan covering effort, cost, and the risks worth watching, so stakeholders had full visibility before development began

Data Warehouse and Pipeline Development

Data Warehouse and Pipeline Development

  • Built an Azure SQL Database warehouse as the single source of truth, pulling together all six-plus sources ERPs, SharePoint, partner Excel reports, internal databases, and e-commerce platforms into one place
  • Built ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory that collect and refresh data on a schedule, removing manual extraction from the process entirely
  • Added an Azure Blob Storage data lake to hold raw data in its original form, keeping it available for future processing or data science work
  • Built three OLAP cubes through Azure Analysis Services one for company-wide financial metrics, one for e-commerce performance, and one tracking market and distributor-level sales supporting both scheduled and ad-hoc queries

Reporting and Security

Reporting and Security

  • Delivered Power BI reports and apps covering finance, sales, distribution, e-commerce, and supply chain, all connected directly to the central warehouse
  • Used Azure Active Directory to control access by business function, so each team sees only what's relevant to it while sensitive commercial and financial data stays protected
  • Gave analysts an isolated sandbox for testing new report logic and running experiments, completely separate from the live system
  • Added lineage tracking across every pipeline and report, so any number can be traced back to its source closing the gap that had previously made the old reports feel like a black box

Training and Handover

Training and Handover

  • Ran hands-on training for finance, operations, and e-commerce teams covering navigation, filtering, drill-down, and self-service customization
  • Handed over full technical documentation architecture, pipeline configuration, cube structure, and access management so the client's IT team can maintain and extend the platform independently
  • Provided post-launch support in the weeks following go-live, monitoring performance and data quality and resolving issues within agreed timeframes

Business Impact

One view of the business

One view of the business

For the first time, manufacturing, sales, distribution, e-commerce, and finance data from six-plus previously separate sources sit in one Azure data warehouse.

Manual reporting, gone

Manual reporting, gone

Automated pipelines now collect, transform, and load data on schedule, delivering current reports to every function without IT or analyst involvement.

Full Transparency Across Data Flows

Full Transparency Across Data Flows

Business users now have complete visibility into how every figure is calculated and where data originates through data change tracking and a clearly structured data warehouse eliminating the black-box reporting that previously undermined confidence in analytics outputs.

A Scalable Platform Built for Growth

A Scalable Platform Built for Growth

The new BI platform is designed to scale with the business new data sources, report types, and analytical processes can be added quickly and independently by the client's ICT team, without requiring external development support for every change.

REVIEWS

What Clients Say About Us

5.0
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We hired Versich to rebuild our analytics stack after an internal project stalled. They came in, assessed the situation quickly, and delivered production-ready Power BI dashboards within weeks. Their DAX knowledge and data modelling skills are exceptional.

Marcus Webb

CTO
5.0
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Versich understood our finance workflows from day one. They built dashboards that connected directly to our ERP and gave our leadership team real-time visibility into cash flow, margins, and budget vs actuals. The quality of the work and the speed of delivery were both outstanding

Priya Nair

Finance Director
5.0
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Before Versich, our reporting was scattered across spreadsheets with no single source of truth. They built us a Power BI environment that connects our warehouse, finance, and sales data in one place. Our operations team now makes decisions in hours instead of days

Daniel Okonkwo

Head of Operations