Case Study: an international retail chain boosts profit and cuts losses with Emerline’s Power BI and Azure analytics platform

International Retail Chain boosts operating profit 2.5% with Emerline

The client, an international retail chain, faced significant challenges due to fragmented data from its decentralized global operations, which led to operational inefficiencies and a lack of unified analytics. Emerline was engaged to address these issues, which included manual reporting processes, inventory management problems, and the absence of a single source of truth for business data.

Emerline implemented a unified analytics platform using Microsoft Power BI and Azure, integrating data from disparate sources and establishing robust data governance. The solution included interactive dashboards and AI/ML models for demand forecasting and loss prevention. This resulted in a 2.5% increase in operating profit and an annual reduction of $4 million in losses for the client, alongside major improvements in inventory turnover and supply chain efficiency.