The data platform serves as a hub linking together data from different parts of the operations. In 2025, work began to focus on financial and business management applications.
Accessibility and speed
In the past, analysis often required manual intervention and support from the controller function. With the new solution, based on Microsoft technology, data will be available to the entire organization in a new way.
“In the future, everyone with access to the system will be able to retrieve and analyze data themselves without always having to go via the controller function. This allows us to act faster and build better insight into our numbers,” says Henrik Torstensson, Finance Manager at Suzuki Garphyttan. The system enables detailed analysis of business data in several dimensions. Combined with the OneShare business system, it also makes it easier to compare Suzuki Garphyttan’s different sites. In this way, deviations can be detected faster and best practices can be spread globally.
Customer benefit and the future
Henrik sees the data platform as a foundation to build on for the future and for sustainable business. When more users, from marketing for example, are able to benefit from the data, there is also considerable potential for working in an even more customer-oriented way.
“When our salespeople have access to appropriate data, they can give customers clear and fact-based answers regarding deliveries, for example. This strengthens our confidence in the market,” he says.
New applications
Developing the data model will also bring opportunities to add specific applications supporting marketing and sales.
“The next step is to increase the amount of relevant data available, and in the future, it may be possible to use AI to support this. But we also need to ensure that we handle all data securely.”
