Kimball International has been looking for ways to cut costs within their operations. They have been utilizing a manual process supported by SharePoint and Spreadsheets to receive ideas, evaluate them and determine which to implement. This manual process introduces some delay into the process and executives wish to be able to process and evaluate the suggestions more expediently to be able to realize the cost savings as soon as possible.
Solution Approach & Summary
- Existing business process, forms and data and were evaluated
- Modifications to the process, tools and data were included in the development of the new application
- The decision was made to implement the capture and export of the suggestions as a phase 1 and then consider future enhancements for work-flow and automation.
- The new business object and forms were developed by T4S Partners and tested by the Kimball Transformation office team members.
- Data from the old system was migrated into the new system by Kimball IT Staff.
Results
Custom development of a new Business Object for Idea Submissions for cost savings initiatives. The end result was the new application was up and operational in less than 2 months. The data is accurately being captured, evaluated and exported for what-if activities and reporting via PowerBI.
Kimball expects future enhancements to streamline and automate the process will provide additional value and more expedient implementation of cost savings.
