Case Study: Bayer achieves 83% faster reporting and enterprise-wide self-management with Tableau Software

Bayer Uses Tableau to Promote Employees’ Self-Management, Deploy Transparent Strategies, Achieve Refined Operations

Bayer, a 150‑year‑old global life sciences company with extensive operations in China across pharmaceuticals, consumer health and crop science, faced fragmented, disparate data and slow, inconsistent reporting. Different departments and regions produced siloed analyses using varied sources and tools, making unified management and timely decision‑making difficult—some reports took up to six months to produce and departmental analyses up to three months.

By rolling out Tableau Desktop and then Tableau Server, Bayer built a global decision‑support platform that integrates multiple data sources, adds predictive and scenario analysis, and standardizes KPIs. The change cut data‑integration and report production from six months to one month (and departmental cycles from three months to two weeks), drove daily self‑service analytics toward company‑wide self‑management (e.g., KPI Score Card dashboards), increased transparency and operational efficiency, and strengthened data‑driven decision making and competitiveness.

Bayer

David Wang

Head of Commercial Insights and Analytics Director