Case Study: Blyth HomeScents achieves rapid, unified sales and inventory insights with Qlik

A singular view with QlikView improves performance at Blyth HomeScents

Blyth HomeScents International (BHI) is a global consumer-products company known for fragranced brands like Colonial Candle and Carolina. Faced with highly seasonal sales, multiple ERP systems and slow, manual reporting, BHI lacked timely visibility into sell-through and inventory, which led to excess-and-obsolete stock and hindered growth and promotional responsiveness.

BHI implemented QlikView to consolidate data from its AS/400-based Movex and BPCS systems, delivering a sales dashboard in three weeks and rolling out analytics across sales, finance, supply chain and POS for ~200 users. The result: real-time, drillable insight for executives and sales reps, dramatically faster decisions, stronger retail relationships and a 98% reduction in excess and obsolete inventory, plus reduced ad-hoc reporting demands on IT.

Blyth HomeScents

Martina Latimer

Manager of Business Intelligence