NZ Safety Blackwoods Implements Halo's Analytics and Forecasting
With Halo, NZ Safety Blackwoods enjoys the rigorous reporting and forecasting needed to drive growth and boost profits.
Business Situation
- Business merger and change from
geographic to functional structure - Sales planning and reporting
cumbersome and time-consuming - Inventory and stock analysis
limited to spreadsheets - Limited sales and gross margin
information
Benefits Achieved
- Self-service, timely reporting used across business supports decision-making
- Improved gross margin from better visibility of pricing and margins
- Better tracking of supplier rebates resulting in improved collection
of rebates owed - Reduced burden on IT and Finance
Why Halo?
- New and derivative reports
easy to create - Easy to track and analyze online sales
and counter sales - Forecasting is simple to use and automatically removes one-off sales unlikely to be repeated
“With Halo we can easily see how sales are going every day, and with transaction details just a click away we're able to quickly understand what's causing fluctuations and trends." Yvonne Boersma, Head of Finance, NZ Safety Blackwoods
by Jo Chapman
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