Prevesta Group is Sweden’s largest manufacturer of wooden houses. The group consists of the companies Myresjöhus, Smålandsvillan and Myresjö Mark. Administration is handled centrally from the group headquarters in the scenic area of Småland. In 2005, group turnover was 160 million Euros, and with positive market conditions in the building sector, Prevesta Group is expecting continuous growth in incoming orders.
Need for order analyses
The increasing order volume at the Swedish manufacturer of wooden houses, Prevesta Group, imposes very high demands on the company’s order system. Previously, the process of creating order statistics was very time-consuming and difficult as statistics were created manually. To obtain the necessary overview of the company’s expected sales and deliveries, Prevesta realized that they needed an update of their exiting IT systems. Chief financial officer at Prevesta, Ingemar Josefsson, comments:
“We decided that the answer for us was a datawarehouse solution combined with an analysis program that would allow us to analyze our volume of orders from various angles. We wanted a system where data become available in an open data structure. We also wanted the ability to analyze data in depth, across different time periods and from a wide variety of approaches.“
The answer was TARGIT
Several different systems were evaluated but TARGIT was chosen because it is an open system that works with various types of databases. TARGIT BI Suite also met the company’s demand for user-friendly and in-depth analyses. Today, all employees at Prevesta Group can create analyses and statistics with the TARGIT solution which organizes data from the administrative system, JD Edward, and other systems via a datawarehouse based on MS SQL 2005.
“We have selected a group of super users who are working with TARGIT. The super users support their department managers by creating analyses that enable the managers to make the right business decisions. In addition to these analyses, we will use TARGIT for creating a number of statistical reports that will be communicated to everyone in the organization through our intranet. In this way, the entire organization receives relevant statistics on sales, deliveries and incoming orders”, Ingemar Josefsson explains.
Improved basis for decisions
Only after a short period of using TARGIT, Prevesta is experiencing noticeable results. “TARGIT gives us a much improved basis for efficient decision making. Due to the daily system updates, we are always receiving current information about the volume of orders – and the exact same information is available to all employees. We see great potential in TARGIT, and we know that the system is improving efficiency of our order statistics significantly. “ As a final point, Ingemar Josefsson also explains that TARGIT has improved the quality of data stored in the order system. “We are now discovering errors which would not have been discovered without TARGIT.”
