Kimberly-Clark Drives Revenue with BI

Kimberly-Clark Corp. adopts a business intelligence (BI) solution from Microsoft Corp. to improve manufacturing efficiency and increase business agility.

 

"The Microsoft business intelligence solution has transformed the way we do business at Kimberly-Clark," says Ramon F. Baez, vice president of IT Services and chief information officer at Kimberly-Clark. "The challenges of the economic downturn make it imperative to use information as a competitive advantage, and, thanks to Microsoft's BI solution, employees can make faster decisions and leverage mission-critical information to stay one step ahead of our competitors."

 

Kimberly-Clark chose Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions and deployed a suite of other solutions including Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007 for reporting needs. Kimberly-Clark also provided business analysts with greater visibility into its supply chain, inventory and manufacturing performance, making it easier to pull and aggregate data such as corporate forecast variance and in-stock tools, without a steep learning curve.

 

The company has also realized $10 million in additional revenue by avoiding out-of-stock scenarios. Having successfully implemented the BI solution in its supply chain and manufacturing execution domains, Kimberly-Clark is now looking to reproduce the benefits of the solution in other areas of the company. The company also plans to add new capabilities to the existing BI solution when it upgrades to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010.