“Opening orders take one minute instead of four, and monthly closures—or completing financial activities and procedures at the end of each month—take 2.5 days instead of six."
"Power Apps is a game-changer because it is not complicated. It empowers the user to develop tools for the people who are really going to use them."
"The platform serves as a single source of truth, unifying processes and data across many countries."
“The system provides managers of all levels with target achievement predictions on a realtime basis. The comprehensive forecast we now get is automatically adjusted for baseline and promo scenarios—after promo effect, novelties, target listings, growth factors—while detailed performance and forecasting analytics for the key business aspects is embedded into all processes and indicated in a clear and visual way. The interface is customized for both front and back office users, as well as for managers—and the team did a great job throughout the deployment project.”
“Our North American systems ran in parallel. The same item could have a different naming convention from one system to another, requiring a recoding and mapping to the same product in the other system. For finance and planning, it was an enormous challenge. We had to integrate those systems with external ones such as credit card processing, e-commerce, and electronic data interchange.”
"The ease with which we can scale storage and throughput has been another huge plus for us. During the development phase, the support we got from Microsoft was a pleasant surprise and helped us immensely."
"Some of our team members were suggesting other NoSQL databases. But while other NoSQL data stores may excel along particular dimensions, none of them could satisfy all of our requirements for easy and rapid application development."
"With Teams as a base for project management, we can retain oversight into all our operations to ensure consistent service delivery. At the same time, we can rationalize our resources and pass that savings on to the customer."'
"We think it’s a lot safer to send a colleague a link to an official work document than to share files on WhatsApp, the way we used to do. And we have upgraded from Windows 7 and 8.1 to standardize on Windows 10. With Windows Defender Antivirus, we’re easily detecting and stopping malware, and we’re more comfortable traveling with our laptops. Employees love the new UI too!”
"Digitalization is more than just typical Microsoft applications. Knowledge sharing and training is a continuous process. We want to stay hungry for innovation, not be afraid, and never be complacent."
“I showed them a fully automated event where emails could be sent automatically, follow-up actions could be automated, and all our customer data stayed in one place, allowing us to better qualify each lead."
“We can build on what we have months down the road and organically create a complete picture of who each customer is, which aids in segmentation tremendously.”
“ITRAK has provided a valuable tool to assist in moving from a reactive and systematic safety program to a program where we can pragmatically prevent incidents from happening through tracking proactive efforts."
“The Power BI dashboards display data from all of our facilities creating healthy competition and promoting increased overall health of the system.”
"This is a radical change at CEMEX, because it helps partners and staff be more productive and accelerates the decision-making process. That ultimately means providing better service to our customers. We are simplifying our processes and giving users the power to act."