Case studies
Case study · Operations
Reducing delivery leadtime
- The problem
- Delivery lead time was falling short of expectations. The obvious suspects were production delays, material availability and planning. But which factor was actually driving the problem?
- Ziddle analysis
- Ziddle analysed delivery lead time against multiple business parameters, using both data-driven correlations and AI-based correlations. It identified the factors influencing delivery performance, tracked their trends and allowed the team to drill down into low-scoring parameters to uncover their underlying causes.
- The surprise finding
- The result challenged the team's initial assumption. The strongest correlation with delivery delays was not necessarily production or materials. It was the time taken to obtain approvals. A seemingly administrative activity was having a significant downstream impact on delivery lead time.
- The business impact
- Instead of treating delayed deliveries as a production problem, management could focus on the actual contributing factor and investigate where the approval process was slowing down.
That's the power of Ziddle:
It doesn't just show you where performance is poor. It helps you discover why.
Sometimes Ziddle confirms your gut feeling.
Sometimes it tells you something you never expected.
Case study · Operations
Improving margins
- The problem
- Improving margin is a continual activity as the bottlenecks and constraints keep shifting. Managers focus on direct and indirect expenses and the sales. But the major opportunities to improve margins are not easily visible.
- Ziddle analysis
- Ziddle analysed various co-related factors from the most intuitive ones to factors co-related by data trends. It presents these factors in a beautiful dashboard which can be further interactively studied to discover areas which can improve margins significantly.
- The surprise finding
- Ziddle showed that there were loss making items which were eating into the margin of otherwise healthy sales.
- The business impact
- The company identified these items and requested for a price hike based on solid data. This resulted in an immediate and sustainable improvement in the margins.
That's the power of Ziddle:
It doesn't just show you where the problem lies. It helps you discover why.
Sometimes Ziddle confirms your gut feeling.
Sometimes it tells you something you never expected.
Case study · Business
Sales review meetings
- The problem
- Companies often depend on MIS reports prepared by the Sales team for the monthly review meetings. Usually these MIS reports include the KRAs & KPI as compared to the set targets. But these MIS reports do not analyse the reasons if the targets are not being met.
- Ziddle analysis
- Ziddle analysed all possible factors and showed the recent as well as long term trends for every factor. It also gave an interactive dashboard for the management to drill in and precisely find out what was wrong.
- The surprise finding
- Ziddle showed that there was no improvement in the Sales order booking because marketing budget was not spent as planned.
- The business impact
- The company immediately started monitoring the marketing plan for the year executed the strategies to improve their reach. The sales started flowing in automatically from the next month.
That's the power of Ziddle:
It doesn't just show you where the problem lies. It helps you discover why.
Sometimes Ziddle confirms your gut feeling.
Sometimes it tells you something you never expected.
Case study · Business
Finance review meetings
- The problem
- Monthly Finance Review Meetings do not bring any perspective from the growth point of view.
- Ziddle analysis
- Ziddle went beyond just showing P/L, budget vs actual and the balance sheet.
- The surprise finding
- Ziddle showed that the company had spent majorly to gain more business but the operations were not geared for this growth in sales. Ziddle showed the inverse co-relation between sales order growth and rise in customer end rejection, late deliveries and increase in overtime expenses.
- The business impact
- The company was now able to monitor the capacity of every department and invested in the bottlenecks to improve the throughputs and thus the ROI on investments.
That's the power of Ziddle:
It doesn't just show you where the problem lies. It helps you discover why.
Sometimes Ziddle confirms your gut feeling.
Sometimes it tells you something you never expected.