Walker Zanger Refines Decision-making with Phocas

For more than 60 years, Walker Zanger, the world’s most comprehensive luxury stone and tile company, has combined traditional tile making techniques with modern sophistication, creating a brand that transcends any singular style. Walker Zanger has 13 showrooms and 175 authorized dealers in US, and also supplies tile and stone to significant projects across the globe.

The company wanted to deploy robust analytics capabilities to help sales representatives and managers make better decisions. Previously, decision making was cumbersome and time consuming. Users had to either settle for canned reports or wait one to two weeks for IT to build custom queries for them. After a report was run, users who needed to see the data from a different perspective had to rerun the report.

Walker Zanger’s Prophet 21 ERP solution from Epicor manages accounting, purchasing, order entry, and inventory for more than 3,000 stock keeping units (SKUs). Managers in operations, sales, and finance use Phocas to create reports and queries on the data within Prophet 21 ERP to easily analyze sales data about these products. Now they look at a summary report and simply click on an item to drill down to more detailed information; for example, by drilling down from total YTD sales to YTD sales by location.

 As a result, staff use Phocas in a fluid manner, asking follow-up questions at the speed of thought to improve decision making. Sales reps now use Phocas to help dealers find ways to increase sales. Reps show dealers exactly what products have and haven’t sold and compare that information with what the majority of dealers are selling. Using this information, dealers prioritize their efforts to improve sales results.

Before implementing Phocas, reps often used multiple reports and combined information for presentation in a time consuming process that did not allow changes to reports on the fly. Managers use Phocas dashboards to set employees’ performance expectations and track their progress in meeting those goals.

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