Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in visual analytics, today announced that Nature’s Pride, a global fruits and vegetables distributor, has selected QlikView® to drive increased visibility across its supply chain.

Nature’s Pride specializes in importing, exporting, ripening, packaging, and distributing exotic fruit and vegetables. To ensure each piece of produce is delivered at the peak level of freshness it is imperative the organization can track the supply chain from grower to consumer. Prior to Qlik, the organization struggled to manage its growing amounts of data, often stored on disparate systems, and had difficulties presenting it in an understandable way.

To overcome these issues, Nature’s Pride worked with Qlik partner UNIT4 for the full implementation of QlikView. With the deployment, Nature’s Pride was immediately able to streamline its processes to drive efficiency and reduce costs in the supply chain. Employees could more easily access the data they needed with self-service analytics and were able to respond more nimbly with visual insights at the point of decision.

Currently, QlikView is deployed within the manufacturing and commercial departments of the Nature’s Pride. Specific dashboards include:

  • Advanced productivity dashboard – Delivers real-time insights into staffing, production speed, and whether employees are performing above or below the norm. Displays the speed and number of stop minutes of each machine to provide insight into each production line.
  • Commercial dashboard – Provides insights into certain product combinations and the total number of purchases broken out by product. This allows the organization to better meet customer needs and discover what products are most popular.
  • Financial balance dashboard – Delivers insights into costs and revenues so Nature’s Pride can pin-point issues and make cost-saving decisions based on data.

“Qlik has been adopted as the analytics standard within our organization. Everyone is aware of the value that data analysis can offer us and the simplicity with which the reports can be created,” said Roland Loykens, data specialist at Nature’s Pride. “Earlier we had to pull the information from a multitude of sources, which was a laborious and time consuming process. Now we have the information we need within a few clicks and the reports are beautiful. These provide a clear understanding of how we stand compared to the budget so we know if we should accelerate and if so where we need to do this.”

“Nature’s Pride is a great example of an organization where Qlik has become ingrained within its corporate culture for analytics at the point of decision,” said James Fisher, vice president of Global Product Marketing, Qlik. “Qlik is not only used to provide more insight into data, it also supports the growth of the company and dictates where they need to focus within a given time period.”

About Qlik

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in visual analytics. Its portfolio of products meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics. Approximately 35,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than 100 countries.

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