Turning hours of digging for data into minutes of insight
Delivering data to drive action
Mill Steel Co. is one of North America’s premier flat-rolled steel suppliers. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the company operates five steel service centers across the U.S., serving some of the world’s most demanding industries with a commitment to superior quality and performance.
Mill Steel wanted to use its data to drive improvement and innovation, but slow, inefficient tools were getting in the way, so Vervint built a scalable analytics solution that gave Mill Steel fast, self-service access to the insights hiding in their own operations.
Get to insights faster
Replace slow, cumbersome data retrieval with a tool that could surface answers in minutes, not hours.
Make data self-service
Give teams across the business the ability to explore data and root causes themselves, without waiting on a specialist.
Build for what’s next
Create a flexible solution that would work with Mill Steel’s current systems and whatever ERP solutions came next.
A data problem holding back innovation
Mill Steel was committed to using data to solve problems and seize opportunities, identifying root causes and areas for improvement across its operations. But increasing data volumes, slow retrieval, and inefficient tools kept getting in the way, turning what should have been quick answers into hours of digging.
Fast, flexible, and ready to scale
Vervint built a flexible analytics solution that delivered insights faster and gave Mill Steel self-service tools designed to work with both its current and future ERP systems, deploying its proven Azure Data Factory ingestion approach alongside a scalable enterprise data warehouse and Power BI analytics layer. The result was a visual, scalable tool for scorecards, data exploration, AI visualizations, and root-cause analysis.
Today, Mill Steel can access data quickly enough to analyze, collaborate, and solve issues across the supply chain faster than ever, turning what was once a bottleneck into a competitive advantage for just-in-time inventory management with clients.
With data now working as fast as they do, Mill Steel is positioned to keep solving problems and seizing opportunities at the pace their industry demands, turning insight into action just-in-time, every time.
