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Fuel Distribution Giant Replaces Spreadsheets with Oracle Essbase Reporting
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The Problem: The fuel distribution giant faced one of the most common challenges among rapidly growing enterprises: preparing monthly financial and operational reports. High transaction volumes and a daunting number of product SKUs made it difficult to analyze sales by types of customers or segments. Reporting data was located across multiple unintegrated systems, creating monthly close bottlenecks.
Additionally, creating financial reports in Excel compounded the issue: hours of data preparation was extended to days as the information was error prone and sometimes incorrect, resulting in data changes that forced a large amount of rework. Identification of changes ex-post was difficult and version control was, well, uncontrollable.
The Solution: There was clearly potential for an integrated reporting system versus the multiple platforms Sun Coast was currently leveraging...