Australian Snack Foods Company Enhances Efficiency and Saves Time with Atlas

Prior to Atlas, Snack Brands Australia experienced the following reporting challenges:

• Accessing applicable data

• Manual, multi-step reporting processes

• A lack of access to real-time information

• A heavy reliance on IT to create or edit reports

• A lack of data accuracy and/or validity

• Combining/consolidating GL and non-GL data from core systems and other database sources

The company evaluated the following reporting tools before selecting Atlas:

• Direct SQL access using IT to generate data-driven reports or extracts

Snack Brands Australia used Atlas as a replacement for Management Reporter, and uses the following supplemental reporting tools with Atlas:

• Power BI tools

• A data warehouse solution

The company uses the Atlas query functionality for reporting beyond Financials/GL for the following types of reports beyond Financials/GL:

• Procurement

• Sales

• Inventory

• Commodity ( Added module to Microsoft Dynamics AX)

Results

• Freed up 75% of their organization’s IT support now that they have Atlas to create reports

• Trimmed more than 60% from their previous reporting process after using Atlas