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T-Formation Adopts Operational BI to Maximize Self-Service and Increase Profits

Customer Company Size

Mid-size Company

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

InetSoft’s Style Intelligence

Tech Stack

Data Analytics
Business Intelligence

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Apparel

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing
Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance
Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

About The Customer

T-Formation is a privately owned and operated one-stop shop for apparel production. Founded in 1987, it is ranked as the 3rd largest volume printer in the United States. T-Formation's facilities manage customer orders throughout the production lifecycle to include custom design, development, production, and shipping. The company works with organizations of all sizes and types, from Fortune 500 through non-profits, universities and smaller businesses. T-Formation uses a single database to manage their data, including everything from data entry and sales through production, order management, and shipping.

The Challenge

T-Formation, a large volume printer in the United States, was facing challenges with its in-house order system solution which provided limited reporting functionality. The system handled all sales, general ledger, artwork management, production schedule, statistics, shipping, receiving, and invoicing, but linking this data in a way to identify opportunities was not easy. The traditional form of reporting did not allow decision makers to get to information easily. The organization knew there were areas they were unable to successfully analyze and wanted to implement a tool that would allow business to see – at a glance – whether they were making a profit and how they could manage their contracts more efficiently.

The Solution

To gain broader business visibility, T-Formation downloaded a trial version of InetSoft’s Style Intelligence in early 2012. After the initial 60 days of use, they decided to implement the software based on its high level of interactivity and quick time to value. After 4 months of use they have 10 dashboards that are used throughout the organization. InetSoft helped T-Formation by connecting the desired data, and the first dashboard was up and running within the week. With 10 concurrent end user licenses, business users are able to interact with dashboards to the level of detail they require and get access to the information they need without having to export and manipulate data.

Operational Impact

T-Formation has seen many benefits in their short time using Style Intelligence. They have changed some of their pricing models based on their analyses after finding out that depending on product pricing and order size, not all order were profitable for the company.
T-Formation was able to break down the process to identify efficiencies within the lifecycle, which enabled them to optimize their pricing models to increase profits as well as make complementary changes to overall manufacturing schedules.
To increase efficiencies even further, discrepancy logs were created to track anomalies in production or within business processes to ensure higher productivity.

Quantitative Benefit