Case Study: a leading specialty retailer of entertainment products achieves 5x faster nightly loads with Converge Technology Solutions

Platform to Manage Supply Chain and Analyze Retail Performance

The client, a leading specialty retailer of entertainment products, faced challenges with siloed data, including an AS400 ERP, and relied on inefficient Excel-based processes. They needed a unified platform to manage their supply chain and analyze retail performance, aiming to make their analysts self-sufficient. They engaged Converge Technology Solutions for a solution.

Converge Technology Solutions provided an implementation roadmap and designed a custom ETL infrastructure to collect, clean, and transform the source data. The solution resulted in a 5x performance increase for the nightly data load process and enabled business users to perform ad-hoc analyses from a single, trusted source of inventory and sales data.