Dura Vermeer is a top ten player in the Dutch construction industry, active in the development, engineering, realization, maintenance and renovation of projects in residential building, non-residential building and infrastructure. The company has a turnover of around 1 billion euros and around 2,500 employees. Dura Vermeer stands out through its customer focus, resourcefulness, active integration of sustainability themes and the development of innovative building solutions. This shows in award-winning innovative products and techniques, and in the use of innovative concepts such as chain collaboration, LEAN construction, BIM (Building Information Model) and Systems Engineering.
- Client: Dura Vermeer
- Industry: Construction
- Product used: Qlik Sense
Dura Vermeer achieves more efficient and effective purchasing with Qlik's BI solution
Dura Vermeer's goal for business intelligence was to get a clear overview of its KPIs. Gaining insight into purchasing KPIs used to cost Dura Vermeer a lot of time. Developing quarterly reports in Microsoft Excel, for example, took an average of three days per subsidiary. Björn Smeets, National Purchasing Manager at Dura Vermeer: "The work didn't stop once the quarterly reports were done. Analyzing those reports raised new questions, and finding the answers could easily take a few weeks. That's what led us to explore the possibilities of business intelligence further."
The result
More efficient and effective purchasing
"The Seeing is Believing session was an incredible experience. Within a day, we had a complete purchasing dashboard for the Infra division. E-mergo's hands-on attitude, and the fact that they genuinely helped us build awareness around data analysis, meant we got 400% more out of our data in those few days than we'd expected. The whole purchasing team was thrilled."
Saving 200 man-hours
Using business intelligence in the form of a Qlik Sense application saves every buyer dozens of hours a month, since they no longer have to manually create various reports for the subsidiaries. With 22 buyers, that quickly adds up to a monthly saving of around 200 man-hours. Qlik has therefore delivered a huge cost saving.
Smarter, easier purchasing
The Qlik Sense application creates purchasing analysis options across the whole group. Every division has access to general information as well as specific tabs tailored to its own needs, drawing on 4 different source systems. This lets Dura Vermeer look at its own companies and at other building consortiums, creating more awareness of spending. Clear sight of the KPIs also means Dura Vermeer can purchase in a smarter, easier way.
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