Every now and then you see them on the tracks: long freight trains full of containers or bulk cargo, moving goods from the port of Rotterdam or Amsterdam to the European hinterland. There's a good chance these are DB Cargo trains: one of the largest rail freight carriers in Europe. It's no surprise, then, that they deal with huge volumes of data. E-mergo helped them implement Qlik Sense to make insight into that data visual and accessible.
- Client: DB Cargo
- Industry: Logistics
- Product used: Qlik Sense
The Result
One version of the truth
DB Cargo employees now have one version of the truth, because they all look at the same dashboard with the same information, instead of their own Excel lists.
More insights
Having everything in one source saves DB Cargo an enormous amount of time. Various filters can also be applied in Qlik Sense. For example, they can see what impact this summer's floods in Germany had on train cancellations, and what the financial consequences of that were.
Easier collaboration
Another benefit is that tasks are easier to hand over to colleagues, since not everyone works with their own reports anymore. That means colleagues can more easily take time off, even around the monthly close. Tasks can be handed over faster.
With Qlik Sense, DB Cargo now has one version of the truth
DB Cargo has a huge amount of train data: where is the train running, to which destination, how fast, and with how many wagons? "That train data is in turn linked to our systems for staff planning and goods administration. On top of that, logistics always involves a lot of rules around reporting," says Margje Derriks, Head of Controlling at DB Cargo. "So our request to E-mergo two and a half years ago was to make all that information from large databases clear, visual, and understandable, and to get standardized output."
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