23% Reduction in Inventory Wastage and 3 Weeks Reduction in Management Reporting Through Real-Time Operational Analytics for a Leading F&B (FMCG) Producer in KSA

23% Reduction in Inventory Wastage
and 3 Weeks Reduction
in Management Reporting

Through real-time operational analytics for a leading F&B (FMCG) producer in KSA.

Client Overview

A large food & beverage producer in the Middle East with multiple production facilities and a complex distribution network serving both modern trade and traditional channels. The organization operates high-volume production, procurement, and sales operations with strict cost, margin, and shelf-life considerations.

Business Challenge

The client faced limited end-to-end visibility across production, inventory, sales, and finance. Data was spread across in-house operational systems, procurement platforms, and finance applications, resulting in delayed margin insights, limited control over wastage and expiry, and heavy reliance on manual reporting processes.

Leadership teams lacked timely, trusted insights to identify inefficiencies across plants, warehouses, and routes to market.

Solution Delivered by DataPhi:

DataPhi designed and implemented a centralized Azure-based data and analytics platform to drive operational transparency and financial control.

Integrated data from in-house manufacturing systems, inventory platforms, sales systems, and finance applications into Azure Data Lake Storage

Built scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks, with embedded data quality and reconciliation checks

Designed optimized analytical data models using Azure Synapse to support performance and margin analysis

Delivered governed, self-service Power BI dashboards for operations, supply chain, finance, and executive leadership

Key Analytics Use Cases Delivered

Manufacturing & Cost Performance Analytics

Plant-level visibility into production output, yield, and cost variances

Early identification of cost leakages across raw materials and processing

Inventory, Wastage & Expiry Analytics

Warehouse-level tracking of inventory aging, expiry exposure, and write-offs

Proactive actions to reduce wastage and improve stock rotation

Sales & Margin Visibility

Product, channel, and customer-level margin insights

Alignment of sales performance with cost and supply chain realities

Business Impact & ROI

23% reduction in inventory wastagethrough improved visibility into aging and expiry risks

28% improvement in margin variance detection,enabling faster corrective actions

Reduced monthly management reporting cycles by 3 weeks, Reduced monthly management reporting cycles by 3 weeks.

Improved accountability across plants and warehouses through consistent, trusted KPIs

Why it Matters

The engagement converted fragmented operational data into actionable, enterprise-grade analytics, enabling better cost control, reduced wastage, and faster decisions — all on a scalable Azure data platform.