Case Study: Advantage Pharmacy Group achieves faster reporting, margin control and new lines of business with Qlik

Qlikview Helps Advantage Pharmacy Group Develop New Lines Of Business

Advantage Pharmacy Group is a Melbourne‑based pharmacy chain of 50 stores (23 wholly owned and 27 franchised), with about USD 105M annual turnover and 540 staff. Head office had already centralized many services, but the group faced fragmented reporting from multiple systems, slow monthly report production, and limited supply‑chain visibility — challenges that made it hard to control margins, allocate stock by demand, and deliver professional reports to franchisees.

Working with partner Professional Advantage, the group deployed QlikView as a unified business discovery platform (proof of concept to full roll‑out in three months). The QlikView dashboards replaced manual Excel reporting, cutting report preparation from two days to half a day, improving margin control, speeding identification of slow movers, optimizing ordering and allocations, and even enabling a new external offering around the loyalty system; adoption is now widespread with plans to integrate POS data and expand mobile access.

Advantage Pharmacy

Hilton Belnick

Chief Information Officer