Case Study: NS BlueScope (BlueScope) achieves 36% reduction in man-hours and improved decision-making with Tableau Software

NS BlueScope reduces 36% in man hours through productivity savings with Tableau

NS BlueScope Coated Products, a 50:50 joint venture between BlueScope and Nippon Steel, manufactures coated and painted steel across 29 plants in ASEAN and the US. Rapid growth—especially in Vietnam—and siloed data across ERP, Cognos and Excel left the business without a single point of truth, causing data duplication, inconsistent reporting and slow, manual analysis that hindered timely strategic decisions.

By adopting Tableau for data consolidation and visualization, NS BlueScope established a single, consistent analytics platform with intuitive, role-specific dashboards. The move cut commercial analysis time by 36%, improved decision-making through deeper insights and clearer communications, streamlined IT and reporting, and enabled daily data use across procurement, supply chain, finance, marketing and other functions, with further function-specific dashboards and a data-centralization program underway.

BlueScope

Punit Joshi

Vice President - Strategy & Business Development