Case Study: Food Distribution Company achieves 100+ hours saved per month with Fortra’s Sequel Data Access & Viewpoint

Sequel Transforms IT Reporting for Food Distribution Company

A Hawaii-based food distribution company with about 160 employees and $80M in revenue faced a time-consuming reporting burden: the IT team manually ran and edited daily, weekly and monthly green‑screen queries, printed reports, and often rekeyed data into Excel. Reporting consumed hours each day and days each month, delivered stale information, and made timely analysis and action difficult.

The company implemented Sequel Data Access and Sequel Viewpoint to automate and modernize reporting—consolidating 1,200+ statements into 60 hands‑free reports that run overnight, enabling drag‑and‑drop report creation and direct Excel-ready exports for business users. The change saved over 100 hours of manual report building per month, eliminated the overnight operator role, and delivered timely, actionable data across departments to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.