A cloud data platform for supply-chain visibility
We brought Blackwoods’ procurement, inventory, logistics and service data into a shared cloud platform for analytics and reporting.
Who we built this for.
Blackwoods, a leading industrial and safety supplier with extensive distribution networks and hundreds of thousands of SKUs, needed to reimagine its data strategy to support complex supply-chain operations and strategic decisions.
We built an enterprise data platform on Azure, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Power BI: a unified cloud data lake, real-time streaming, a modern warehouse, and AI-powered data quality.
What stood in the way.
Siloed legacy data
Procurement, inventory, logistics, and service each kept their own systems and their own numbers.
No real-time view
Batch latency blocked live decisions and predictive insight.
Scale pressure
Growing volumes strained an architecture never designed for them.
The solution, piece by piece.
A unified cloud data lake
Central, secure, scalable storage for structured and unstructured data.
Real-time streaming
Streaming analytics give live visibility into inventory and orders.
A modern data warehouse
Complex queries across massive datasets for operations and analytics.
AI-powered data quality
Automated validation, anomaly detection, and predictive insight.
What changed for the client.
Hundreds of thousands of SKUs unified
One platform now holds the whole catalog's truth.
Real-time operational visibility
The supply chain sees itself as it moves.
Self-service BI for every team
Analytics stopped being a specialist bottleneck.
Ready for machine learning
A foundation prepared for predictive optimisation.
The capabilities that carried this engagement.
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Data silos do not merge themselves. Platforms merge them.
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