The challenge
Lidl has been expanding its range of products for customers for some years. More and more new and innovative products are created or included - at ever more locations around the world. Logistics and supply chains have long been complex, and are becoming even more so. That is why previous solutions were increasingly showing the limits of their capabilities: Data from the various system landscapes was being stored locally, without any connection to existing cloud solutions. This led to isolated key performance indicators and reports in different modules – many of which were only available after day-end closing in the relevant source system. It was barely possible to perform comparisons between the different system landscapes, or to create cross-system reports. So, it was time for a faster, contemporary and forward-thinking reporting solution.