Case Study: Crider Foods achieves real-time manufacturing insights with insightsoftware's Vizlib and Qlik

Creating professional, user-friendly analytics with Qlik + Vizlib

Crider Foods, a manufacturer, needed faster access to reliable data to support plant operations, logistics, and financial reporting. Before modernizing its analytics, the company relied heavily on Excel and could take up to seven days to gather and analyze key information, making insights arrive too late to improve day-to-day decisions. Crider Foods turned to insightsoftware products including Qlik Sense and Vizlib, especially Vizlib Finance and Vizlib Collaboration, to better fit its reporting and operational needs.

With insightsoftware’s Vizlib solutions layered onto Qlik Sense, Crider Foods gained near real-time reporting, self-service financial reporting, and writeback capabilities that made dashboards more user-friendly and actionable. The company can now build forms in about 20 minutes, let nontechnical users enter data directly into dashboards, and deliver reports in hours or days instead of weeks or months. The result is faster decision-making, reduced reliance on developers, and a more professional, Fortune 500-style reporting experience.

Crider Foods

Joshua Poole

Director