They spent the first week in our purchasing office asking which shortages actually stop Line 2. The dashboard that followed matched how our buyers already work, though the first prototype needed clearer Thai labels for night-shift supervisors.
Client stories
Evidence from purchasing desks and planning offices — specific engagements, constraints, and outcomes rather than generic praise.
The data assessment caught duplicate item codes from our 2019 plant merger before we wasted budget on charts. We used the findings brief to clean the master file, then came back for the full commission.
Our KPI workshop settled arguments between finance and purchasing about what ‘on-time’ meant. Once definitions were written down, the later dashboard work moved without endless rework.
After we added a new fastener category, the refresh updated filters and lead-time bands within two weeks. Buyers noticed the change in the Monday review without retraining.
I was cautious about another reporting project after two failed internal attempts. Think Beaconbase kept the scope to purchasing extracts we could actually export, and the handover briefing used our own order examples.
Extended note: three-plant food processing group
A plant controller approached us after two internal reporting attempts stalled on inconsistent item codes. We opened with a procurement data assessment, documented the merger duplicates, and paused dashboard construction until finance cleaned the master. The later commission focused on shortage queues ranked by line impact and a spend concentration table for packaging film. The controller’s reservation — caution after prior failures — shaped a narrower first release that matched one trusted monthly report before additional views were added.