Case Study: Lipari Foods achieves real-time warehouse visibility and a streamlined supply chain with Information Builders

Visual Analytics Modernizes Operations and Automates Supply Chain

Lipari Foods, a Midwest regional wholesale food distributor serving thousands of customers with more than 30,000 SKUs, faced a major operational challenge as it consolidated five warehouses into two and built a new $40M facility. The company needed real-time visibility into inventory and warehouse activity and wanted to unify fragmented sales data so managers and field reps could quickly act to meet service-level agreements.

Using Information Builders’ WebFOCUS platform—InfoAssist, a responsive sales portal, iWay DataMigrator, and the Visual Warehouse accelerator—Lipari created a mobile, role-based sales mart and a heat-map style warehouse visualization that maps X/Y/Z coordinates of inventory and equipment. The result: real-time insights that optimize space and product placement, boost picking productivity, streamline the supply chain, improve sales transparency and accountability, and help Lipari consistently meet SLAs.

Lipari Foods

Joe Beydoun

Manager of Security Systems and Business Intelligence Startegy