Case Study: SDV accelerates planning and cuts budgeting time with IBM Analytics

Keeping ahead of competitors with fast, customer-level operational planning and financial analytics

The logistics company SDV, a subsidiary of Bolloré, needed to accurately predict and control personnel, warehousing, and freight costs to maintain profitability, particularly when onboarding new clients. To address this, SDV partnered with vendor IBM and its business partner PMsquare to implement a solution using IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, and IBM Cognos Insight software. This provided a scalable analytics platform to model the complex business.

The IBM solution enabled rapid analysis of revenue and costs for over 10,000 customers and automated the data collection and reporting processes. This resulted in a two-week acceleration of the ASPAC region's consolidation and budgeting cycles, drastically reduced budget preparation time, and provided a single source of truth for comprehensive, granular financial and operational planning. The implementation by IBM and PMsquare gave SDV a much deeper understanding of customer profitability and operational efficiency.

SDV

Stephen Curtis

CFO of ASPAC