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Wholesale · Post-Merger Integration

Wholesale ERP Consolidation & Commercial Analytics Platform

Unified a newly merged wholesale business onto a single ERP and Power BI suite covering inventory, profitability, suppliers, and receivables.

Odoo ERPPower BIDAXPower QueryPower Automate
Margin Leakage Identified
Product · Supplier · Customer
Inventory Reordering
Data-Driven Procurement
Receivables Visibility
Collections & Aging
Automated Reporting
Power Automate Distribution
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Project Overview

Business Problem

Following a merger, the business needed to consolidate inventory, purchasing, sales, accounting, and reporting into a single operational environment. Management lacked visibility into inventory performance, supplier effectiveness, profitability, and operational bottlenecks.

Challenges
  • ·Divergent processes across newly merged departments
  • ·Largely manual reporting with no single source of truth
  • ·No visibility into supplier or product-level profitability
  • ·Receivables, inventory health, and delivery performance untracked
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My Role

Stakeholder Management

Workshops with department heads to align on future-state operations.

Requirements Gathering

Documented processes and translated needs into functional specs.

Process Design

Designed standardized workflows across purchasing, sales, and inventory.

UAT & Training

Coordinated User Acceptance Testing, training, and handover.

BI Development

Built the Power BI analytics layer and DAX models end to end.

Reporting Automation

Used Power Automate to distribute role-specific reports automatically.

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Solution · Process Flow

1
Discovery

Stakeholder workshops and process mapping.

2
Design

Future-state workflows and functional specifications.

3
Build

ERP configuration and Power BI model development.

4
Test

UAT cycles with each department.

5
Rollout

Training, go-live, and automated report distribution.

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Dashboard Gallery

Representative views from the Power BI environment delivered for this engagement. Click any tile to enlarge.

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Business Impact

Margin visibility at every level

Customer, supplier, product, and category margins now monitored in real time.

Early cost-pressure detection

Rising supplier costs surface before they erode profitability.

Data-driven reorder decisions

Inventory turnover improved with reorder recommendations and slow-mover detection.

Automated report distribution

Role-specific reports delivered without manual preparation.

Open orders & delivery oversight

Open orders, delivery delays, and supplier SLAs continuously tracked.

Receivables under control

Overdue balances and collection performance monitored daily.

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Technologies Used

Odoo ERPPower BIDAXPower QueryPower Automate
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Key Learnings

Stakeholder alignment is the highest-leverage activity in any ERP consolidation.

Reporting automation pays back faster than additional dashboards.

A single source of truth changes the quality of every downstream commercial decision.