Accelerate time-to-market with automated data provision

When Excel is no longer sufficient – and time suddenly becomes a factor

In a typical office, there is a bustle of activity between development, purchasing, and sales. Everyone is focused on their work – but often in their own world. Information is maintained, planned, and adjusted. However, as soon as something changes, the guessing begins: Who changed what and when? What is the current status? Queries, meetings, coordination rounds – valuable time is lost.

The result: the path from idea to finished product becomes longer. Time-to-market recedes into the distance.
What if all relevant data from different areas of the company were automatically provided – intelligently linked, up-to-date, transparent? This is exactly where the solution developed by SPIRIT/21 in collaboration with the customer comes in: a tool that brings together data from development, purchasing, sales, and other areas, breaks down silos, and accelerates processes.

This project example shows how this company-wide data linking works in practice and what effects it achieves.

Customer requirement

A company in the field of product development requires a central platform for collecting and displaying purchasing data. Until now, information on products and components has been maintained in separate Excel spreadsheets for each department. The lack of coordination leads to a high coordination effort, delays, and a longer time-to-market. The goal is to automatically link data, make it available company-wide, and significantly speed up decision-making.

Project highlights

Intelligent dashboards with centralized data transparency
Automated data imports & backend logic
Fast decisions in prototype purchasing
Relief of the specialist departments through automation

Challenge

As part of a cross-departmental digitization project, we are faced with the task of consolidating fragmented data sources from various business functions, including development, purchasing, and quality assurance. Until now, the data has been maintained manually in Excel spreadsheets and automatically recorded via various systems, which has led to inconsistencies and outdated information. The lack of transparency regarding components, their status in the development process, and the traceability of changes is particularly challenging. There was no central database that provided a holistic view of the product lifecycle.

SPIRIT/21 solution

SPIRIT/21 develops high-performance dashboards that anchor business logic specifically in the backend, thus offering an optimal user experience. Data imports are (partially) automated, and the platform is continuously maintained and supported as part of a support model.