Challenge
Prior to their beneficial partnership with Zap, Reddrop Group faced several reporting-related challenges. The team faced countless daunting hours of manual effort when exporting reports from Sage 300 and Micropay and converting PDFs to Excel files to display necessary analytics. This wasted valuable time and resources, and as the business grew, it further complicated data integration across various sources. The process became cumbersome, increasing the risk of human error and potentially impacting accurate reporting and decision-making.
Reddrop was in need of an urgent solution to their data and reporting demands in the form of an efficient, highly scalable reporting tool that would unify their data sources to more efficiently deliver meaningful analytics.
Solution
Reddrop Group’s partnership with Zap enabled the company to:
- Unify Data from multiple sources such as Sage 300, Micropay, and spreadsheet based invoice data
- Effectively eliminate the excessive manual data consolidation steps
- Access pre-built industry standard reports and dashboards personalized with unique business insights
- Build ad-hoc reports without the help of the IT team
Zap Data Hub has been a game-changer for Reddrop Group, providing them a singular location to pull valuable insights into the business. “Now, having one single data warehouse, Reddrop Group can trust their unified data and instantly get access to up-to-date data when they need it.” - Harrison Wood, Finance Manager.
Harrison is excited about Reddrop’s future interactions with Zap and has spearheaded their next joint venture. They are currently working on integrating the data from their timesheet application, Tanda, which will help the company improve rostering analysis and manage increasing wage costs more effectively.
Outcome
Singular, Unified Data Warehouse: Previously, Reddrop Group struggled to incorporate their vast pools of data across different platforms. Now, with one unified data warehouse, they have instant access to trustworthy date data anytime they need it.
Improved Cost Control: Zap Data Hub provides an easy-to-use platform for users to access reliable, real-time reports and detailed dashboard views of wage costs, rostering efficiency, and various other cost management metrics.
Company-Wide Unit Cost Analysis: As Reddrop Group has added more store locations to its portfolio, Zap has enabled the company to better validate the Group’s vast range of inventory and non-inventory invoicing at line item level, leading to more effective cost management across both individual products and broader categories and departments.