Case Study: Teck Cominco achieves 99% faster reporting and real-time KPI insights with Qlik

Teck Cominco’s trail operations refined its reporting and analysis with QlikView

Teck Cominco’s Trail Operations is a large, fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complex in British Columbia with about 1,450 employees. Although its ERP and process systems (JD Edwards, PDH, EtQ, Lotus/Excel) captured vast transactional data, managers lacked timely, interactive KPI reporting—relying on slow, manual Excel workarounds that made trend analysis and proactive decision‑making difficult.

Trail deployed QlikView across operations, finance and HR—rolling out the first maintenance app in two weeks and 25 apps in 11 months—bringing multiple data sources into a single dashboard for roughly 70 users. The solution cut report-prep time by 99% (from days to minutes), improved data quality and trend visibility, reduced IT overhead for ad‑hoc requests, and cost about one‑third of comparable BI options.

Teck Cominco

Rick Woodhouse

Information Systems Superintendent