CLIENT CASE STUDY
Meeder Group is an international supplier of fruit and groceries to cruise lines, ships and export markets. It operates across multiple entities with complex margin structures.
You can't manage margins you can't measure
CLIENT
Meeder Group
INDUSTRY
Logistics & Trade
SERVICE
Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence
MARKET
International
THE CHALLENGE
Meeder Group wanted to understand their gross margin at a granular level: per customer, per product, and per entity. The question was straightforward. The answer was not.
Their financial and operational data lived in separate systems with no connection between them. The margin calculations themselves were complex, and their previous data partner had not been able to crack it. Leadership was left making decisions without the detail they needed.
The numbers existed in two systems that did not speak to each other
WHAT WE DID
Start with the insight, work backwards to the data
Rather than starting with the technology, we started by defining exactly what insights Meeder's leadership needed. That clarity determined which data was necessary and how the two systems needed to be connected.
Defined the required gross margin insights together with leadership
Mapped and linked the financial and operational data sources
Built an internal data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Visualized the connected data in Power BI, including complex margin calculations
Automated the full month-end reporting process from start to finish
THE RESULTS
Consistency. Trust. Speed.
0.5
FTE saved through fully automated month-end reporting
1
trusted view of financial and operational data, enabling analytical possibilities that didn’t exist before
6
months to fully transform the reporting cycle including the underlying data platform