Leading Steel & Manufacturing Group – SAP-Based Executive Dashboards
Manufacturing
Middle East (UAE)
Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Power BI
SAP-Based Executive Dashboards
Consolidating data from on-premises SAP source systems to the Azure cloud to build Executive, Sales, and Procurement dashboards for stakeholders and senior management. The solution unified data across SAP Order-to-Cash, SAP Procurement-to-Pay, SAP Finance, Milestone, and MySHEQ, replacing manual Excel-based reporting with automated, self-service Power BI dashboards.
Identifying the unique obstacles that hinder progress and uncovering the root causes behind complex business problems.
Data was spread across multiple source systems — including SAP modules, Milestone, MySHEQ, and Excel files — with no unified view available for senior management or corporate reporting.
A significant manual effort was performed monthly to collect and consolidate data from various source systems into Excel files for higher-level management reporting.
Corporate-level dashboards were being manually prepared in Excel, creating delays, data inconsistencies, and a heavy burden on IT and business teams for report generation.
Data was managed and maintained in silos through different teams and processes, resulting in no single source of truth and significant risk of data discrepancies.
Business users lacked self-service analytics capabilities, making them entirely dependent on IT for any ad hoc reporting or data queries.
Developing strategic, innovative solutions designed to address each challenge with precision, ensuring measurable impact and long-term success.
Conducted business workshops with departments responsible for corporate reporting to identify and prioritise business KPIs across Sales, Procurement, Finance, and Human Capital.
Conducted technical workshops with source system owners to define extraction mechanisms and load data from SAP, Milestone, and MySHEQ into the Azure Data Lake.
Integrated data across all source systems to establish a single source of truth for all end users across Sales, Procurement, Finance, and operational functions.
Developed Power BI dashboards for leadership providing a consolidated view across Sales, Procurement, Balance Scorecard, Human Capital, Finance, and Asset Utilisation.
Enabled self-service BI capabilities for business users, empowering them to independently create ad hoc reports from the system without reliance on IT teams.
Delivering tangible results that drive operational efficiency, data trust, and sustained business value for the organisation.
Automation of data pipelines eliminated the manual collection of data by business users, significantly reducing effort and improving data reliability across all reporting functions.
Visibility and accessibility of KPIs in one consolidated view enabled leadership to make faster, more informed decisions across Sales, Procurement, and Finance.
Business users can now independently create ad hoc and self-service reports from the system, reducing dependency on IT and accelerating access to insights.
Standardised and integrated data from SAP, Milestone, and MySHEQ enabled consistent, reliable reporting across all corporate functions, eliminating discrepancies caused by siloed data management.
The organisation established a scalable, governed data foundation on Azure, enabling faster onboarding of new reporting requirements and reducing dependency on manual, Excel-based corporate reporting.