Yes – we did on-time and on-budget delivery
“Basically, our goal was to get a set of KPIs that could follow up on business processes – primarily in the project area – and contribute with insights we can act on. This information included: Do we deliver our projects on time? Do we keep them under the budget? Do we meet our quality goals? We should be able to keep up with all such information – and preferably during the projects, so we can correct in time if something for some reason does not proceed optimally. That is the case in a nutshell,” says Morten Storm.
During the ERP project, Haarslev started using a Business Intelligence solution to look under the hood on the ERP platform and get an overview of data flows, which made it easier to optimize the process flow.
Since then, the full KPI package has been implemented for better insight into, among other things, supply chain and production, with a focus on deviations on economy and time.
“It has, to a large extent, also been an exercise in change management. For myself, whether we have always had a lot of data available about our businesses and projects. But they have been spread across departments and platforms. Now, they are consolidated and coupled at a level we have never seen before.
It provides insight into a wide range of links and contexts,” explains Morten Storm.
Alarms ensure timely knowledge during the project
The organization has, among other things, gained an overview of milestones, requirements, and when a time limit is exceeded. It gives better control over handovers.
“We received answers to everything in the preparation phase so that we can send the assignment on to the engineers who have to draw the machines. Some of the questions include: When can we hand over to production, plan, lock resources, etc.? When can we deliver?
All these handovers must be constantly in tune and flowing as smoothly as possible. We are better able to ensure that today, and it will eventually make us far better able to handle larger and even more demanding projects,” says Morten Storm. There are other areas where it may subsequently become relevant to use a Business Intelligence solution to create extra transparency in the business. For example, by consolidating data from IoT sensor data on delivered and functioning production lines so that service and maintenance can be optimized further.
Morten Storm estimates that the Business Intelligence solution today pulls 60-70 analysis reports regularly, has made the BI functionality far more accessible to the organization, and assesses that collaboration with Columbus has benefited the entire process.
“The Columbus solution has definitely benefited the course as they already had knowledge of both the ERP platform and the data models in Dynamics 365 and its specific databases to be reported on with us. It gives one quite effective communication and really good opportunities to hand over one larger part of the task,” he says.
