Accelerating Manufacturing Insights with Microsoft Fabric
Business Context
A diversified manufacturing enterprise operating across multiple product lines sought to modernize its analytics capabilities to support faster, data-driven decision-making across the organization.
As operations scaled, leadership faced challenges gaining unified visibility across sales performance, supply chain operations, production planning, and financial reporting. Data was spread across ERP systems and line-of-business applications, resulting in siloed reporting and delayed insights.
The organization set out to establish a single, real-time analytics platform that could support operational efficiency, executive reporting, and future AI-driven use cases.
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Industry Manufacturing
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Engagement Type Data & Analytics Modernization
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Focus Areas Sales, Supply Chain, Production, Finance Analytics
Challenge
Key challenges included:
- Disconnected reporting across sales, supply chain, production, and finance
- Limited real-time visibility into operational performance
- Manual and delayed reporting cycles impacting decision-making
- Difficulty scaling analytics as business units expanded
- Need to modernize analytics while aligning with Microsoft’s data platform strategy
The organization required a platform that could unify data, simplify analytics architecture, and improve business responsiveness.
Solution
atQor partnered with the organization to design and implement a Microsoft Fabric–based analytics platform, delivering an end-to-end, cloud-native data foundation.
The solution included:
- Unified Analytics with Microsoft Fabric
Integrated ERP and operational data into a centralized Fabric environment to support consistent, trusted analytics. - Real-Time Operational & Financial Reporting
Designed semantic models and Power BI dashboards to deliver near real-time insights into sales performance, production efficiency, supply chain status, and financial results. - Executive Dashboards for Decision-Making
Enabled leadership teams to monitor KPIs through intuitive, role-based dashboards, improving speed and quality of decisions. - Scalable, Future-Ready Architecture
Built an analytics foundation designed to support additional data sources, advanced analytics, and AI-driven scenarios.
The implementation emphasized simplicity, performance, and business adoption.
Outcomes & Impact
The Microsoft Fabric implementation delivered tangible business improvements:
- ~20% improvement in overall operational efficiency, supporting better production planning
- Up to 10% improvement in sales team performance through improved data visibility
- Up to 25% improvement in finance team productivity with real-time financial reporting
- Faster, more confident decision-making across leadership teams
- Reduced reliance on fragmented, manual reporting processes
The organization gained a single, trusted view of performance across its manufacturing operations
Future Direction
With a unified analytics platform in place, the organization is positioned to expand into:
- Predictive analytics for inventory and demand forecasting
- AI-driven sales and production planning
- Advanced operational optimization across additional business units
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