Analytics is driving deeper insight at Sager Creek

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Analytics is driving deeper insight at Sager CreekPresented by…Dan Boyce, Director of Demand / S&OPMatthew Hughes, Manager of Inventory Control and AnalyticsBrian Dirking, Director of Product Marketing, Alteryx


Introducing Our Speakers

Brian DirkingDirector of Product MarketingAlteryx, Inc.

Matthew HughesManager of Inventory Control and AnalyticsSager Creek Vegetable Company

Dan BoyceDirector of Demand / S&OP Sager Creek Vegetable Company

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ANALYTICSVarious clever tag lines:

We’re not just dirt farmers from Arkansas!From dirt farming to data mining!

It’s a bean in a can, how hard can it be?

Introducing Dan and MatthewDaniel Boyce• Telecommunications, Energy,

Food Production• Marketing and Marketing

Analytics, Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

Matthew Hughes• Accounting, Bookkeeping,

Inventory, Demand Planning, Statistical Modeling

• I love that transactional data defines our behaviors!

Why?• Decision making for manufacturing and agriculture have been the

business of gut feelings and tenured experience.• There is no such thing as bad data, only bad processes.• Process Engineering based in real time transactions.• 11 separate transaction systems, using different keys, not

interfaced (manual entry back and forth to keep them inaccurately consistent….

Where to Start• Long-Term Goal: Build a fully integrated MRP system

• We don’t have the time to wait for this system design / implementation.

• Immediate Goal: Use Alteryx / Tableau as rapid development tool.• This is done a vertical / business functional area at a time

• Inventory / Inventory Control• Labor cost optimization• Production Planning• Sales & Operations Plan• Single source of truth (our Master Master data sets)

Inventory / Inventory Control• State of affairs when we walked in

• Daily excel report published via email for the prior days aggregate inventory moves

• No consumable inventory trends at any level of aggregation• Lack of trust by Executive layer due to inability to respond to any

questions beyond “what happened yesterday?”• Current state

• Daily Alteryx workflow aggregating transactions into the buckets the Executive team is focused on

• Daily Tableau workbook published to all relevant locations – hard connect between dashboards that Executive team consumes and managers and employees responsible for inventory at the transaction level

Inventory Working Example

Labor / Labor Optimization• State of affairs when we walked in

• Basic report of labor and labor costs for a given week• Inability to drill into transaction level detail in a meaningful way• When this report did not match the “gut feel” no way of going and finding

the cause of the gut feel – reality discrepancy• Current state

• Daily Alteryx workflow calculating “ideal state” for labor• Daily Alteryx workflow pulling labor at the transaction level comparing

against the “ideal state”• Tableau workbook published to working group• Validation exercise as the assumptions driving “ideal state” and results

are pressure tested and modified.

Labor Working Example

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