Cross Jeans
Group reporting with Targit and Dynamics NAV in a clothes company Cross Jeans
Cross Polska Sp. z o.o. is a subsidiary of a Turkish company Cross Jeans Corporation with its business seat in Istanbul which has been operating on the clothes market since 1939. The company’s focus is production and distribution of high-quality jeans and casual clothes in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia. The Polish subsidiary of Cross Jeans launched its business operations in 1991.
The fast growth of subsidiaries resulted in increased requirements towards its IT systems and reporting tools. In 2013, Polish and German subsidiaries almost simultaneously decided to implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV system as a new ERP tool. For Polish implementation. IT.integro was selected as a partner. IT.integro was selected as a partner.
Reasons that made Cross Jeans Polska replace its ERP system
For many years, Cross Jeans, Poland had been using Asseco WF-Mag for its business accounting. Additionally, a great deal of data was stored in Excel sheets which were also used for reporting. At a certain point, this solution appeared to be limiting the potential of the company. Most of problems consisted in the quality of generated reports and efficiency of solutions used. For this reason, a decision was made to implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP.
With 6-7 months following Targit implementation in Cross Jeans Poland, the sales department has completely switched over to Targit, which substituted for Asseco WF Mag, a solution that is still used as the main system for storing business transactions. The tasks performed by an accounting and warehouse management system such as Asseco WF-Mag differ from the functions of a Business Intelligence tool such as Targit. However, our sales department’s opinion about this tool proves its usability, efficiency and superb user experience it guarantees.
Przemysław Madejski, Chief Operating Officer in Cross Polska Sp. z o. o.
Complicated process of generating reports
Reporting was one of the primary problems. The analyst role involved the correction of source data stored in Asseco and Excel sheets on one side, and on the other – creation of reports for other staff members. In addition to an obvious problem which was due to concentrating these huge responsibilities and competences in hands of one person, it was also difficult to generate reports.
More efficient group reporting
The most important organizational improvement resulting from Targit implementation referred to reporting. Previously, all reporting tasks were handled by one person. Presently, each Targit user is able to prepare their own report for their own purposes. The result is that dependency from the analyst has been substantially limited, however on the other hand this stimulates the increase of the amount of analyses performed within the company.
Before, a typical presentation would consist of 200 slides with various reports which were prepared beforehand from scratch each time and always contained some inconsistencies. Presently, the whole series of such reports is defined and prepared within Targit and can be presented without any additional effort at each meeting with the Board. One of the most important features of such reports is their interactivity. Whenever the Board wants to view details, it is possible to drill down the data within the analysis, because all reports are displayed directly from Targit. All data is available at hand.
Przemysław Madejski, Chief Operating Officer in Cross Polska Sp. z o. o.
Reduced load on the SQL database
One of the problems that Cross Jeans Polska had to challenge was the load of queries which have to be processed within the database when reports are generated. They were frequently such a huge workload for a database that they decreased the performance of the system which was simultaneously used by stores and warehouses. Each time the analyst retrieved data for reporting purposes, the IT department would receive phone calls from stores that were not able to issue receipts or from the warehouse unable to process all operations. For, Targit implementation IT.integro had to prepare OLAP cubes, which are used for generating reports. OLAP cubes are updated each night. Thus, when reports are created in Targit the SQL database is not overloaded. On the other hand, data recorded on the previous day is up-to-dated on time.
Meetings with the Board
One of the problems that Cross Jeans Polska had to challenge was the load of queries which have to be processed within the database when reports are generated. As Przemysław Madejski says: Targit is also an excellent tool used at meetings with the Board. In Cross Jeans, such meetings focus on the estimation of high sales volumes. The possibility to generate various reports very fast substantially facilitates the meeting process. Previously, switching from one report to the other would take a few minutes. Taking into account, a huge number of products to be discussed, such a pace was unacceptable. Additionally, what is also a great advantage of Targit, it is a list of reports defined by IT.integro which are used at monthly meetings with the Board.
