World Leading Glass Manufacturer invests in its data analytics journey

With over half a century of history, OI Glass has been producing glass packaging for some of the world's most well-known food & beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical brands. The company also has a high-value range of tableware & stemware for domestic usage. OI Glass has become a leader in the industry by focusing on innovation and quality and providing customers with a wide range of products.

OI Glass works with its customers to develop new solutions for their needs through its product innovation team. Their goal is to ensure that they are able to meet their client's needs while also working toward reducing the environmental impact of glass packaging. They have already helped create more than 4.5 million tons of post-consumer glass since 1991, which is more than any other glass container maker.

What they wanted to achieve

In 2015 the company was looking to substantially increase its investment and development of Data Analytics. The company were seeking a corporate partner to guide and assist them in the very specialised area of Data Analytics after internally conducting a small pilot exercise. The company recognised its Data was disparate and isolated in various business systems across its Asia Pacific operation – ERP (SAP), Custom designed in-house manufacturing systems, Health and Safety Systems, A financial planning global system, Human Resources, Supply Chain Systems and many more were all being utilised – separately. The pressing need was to provide a regional view to support management with a dashboard application accessible through mobile and supporting desktop dashboards.

The client had already identified their key performance indicators (KPIs) and wanted a solution that could access these KPIs from each system in an automated fashion. This would enable them to create dashboards that would present relevant information at the right time for users who needed it most.

Additionally, the company was looking to select a solution to undertake a “Proof of Concept” to then analyse the inspection machine data (sensor data) and to understand the variability in the performance of glass container inspection stations on production lines.

our solution

Results & Benefits

  • A mobile view for regional and country leadership and management across all devices.

  • Integrated view of the business across APAC.

  • Access to information about plants, and equipment levels (lowest detail) all the way to management level KPIs.

  • Real-time sales trends, forecast analysis, forecast accuracy, inventory levels, and Inventory aging, which assisted in understanding customer delivery delays and causes.

  • Monitoring of daily production metrics, and efficiency with the ability to visualize manufacturing line defects at an equipment and equipment location level.

  • Monitor business usage on the platform.

  • Migration to Infonyx Cloud reduced the Total Cost of Ownership.

Infonyx worked with our technology and business teams in an onshore-offshore ‘Analytics As A Service’ model delivering a Regional View of the business across the Asia Pacific. The service included end-to-end delivery - extract, integrate, visualize data and ongoing support for:

• Finance, Sales and Marketing (Monthly Financial Reporting, Daily Sales & Profit Analysis)

• Supply Chain, Daily Production, Manufacturing Plant Production

• Human Resources, Health and Safety

The project team leveraged the AGILE (Iterative) delivery approach with incremental delivery of data and business capability. Access via the Infonyx Smart Data Cloud Platform enables mobility i.e. access ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. 200+ users across the region can access dashboards and generate insights. The initial solution was delivered on-premises and then migrated to the Infonyx Cloud platform.