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Modernising reporting, aligning teams
Learn how we helped Victrex enhance collaboration, gain access to real-time insights and reduce cross-functional report generation time by 50%.
Victrex, a UK-based advanced materials manufacturer, uses the 5Y Business Transformation Platform to streamline reporting and planning across legacy and modern systems. The solution enables real-time performance visibility, faster planning cycles and improved cross-functional collaboration.
The Challenge
How do you streamline reporting and planning across outdated systems without slowing down operations? That was the challenge facing Victrex, a UK-based advanced materials manufacturer serving industries such as automotive, aerospace and electronics.
The company was operating with a mix of outdated ERP, CRM and sales systems and faced issues including:
- Legacy ERP systems with inconsistent reporting structures
- Disconnected CRM and sales tools
- Manual, time-consuming reporting processes
A standard, like-for-like system upgrade wasn’t enough to meet their unique business requirements. The transition introduced additional hurdles as legacy systems had to coexist with newly adopted applications, creating significant integration and data consistency challenges.
At the same time, the company was burdened by a fragmented and costly reporting landscape. It relied on multiple tools and lacked both agility and self-service capability, making it difficult for teams to access timely, accurate insights. Decision-making was slow, siloed and disconnected from real-time performance.
The company needed a modern, unified solution to bring consistency to planning and reporting, improve agility and support faster, better-aligned decisions across the business.
The Solution
We deployed the 5Y Business Transformation Platform to unify cross-functional data and support the implementation of Integrated Business Planning (IBP), aligning business operations and financial goals while accelerating planning cycles.
By integrating eight core functions — Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Quality and R&D, and Manufacturing Operations — IBP enabled faster, more effective collaboration and provided a unified view of company performance and direction.
5Y implemented a flexible, cloud-based reporting and analytics platform to deliver that unified view, enabling:
- Seamless integration of data from ERP, CRM and sales systems
- Coexistence of legacy and modern applications within a unified reporting model
- Real-time visibility using over 200 embedded calculators and 80+ KPIs
- A Microsoft-referenced, scalable architecture to future-proof ongoing transformation
We gave key business users access to real-time insights through a unified reporting layer, reducing planning cycle times across all eight functions and replacing fragmented, manual processes with a centralised source of truth.
With consistent, governed data now accessible company-wide, operational efficiency has improved significantly. Teams can collaborate more easily, make quicker decisions and adjust plans proactively.
The Results
The 5Y Business Transformation Platform delivered measurable value by streamlining reporting and reducing inefficiencies across the entire organisation.
Improvements to reporting and collaboration have been transformational:
- Report generation time was reduced by 50% across departments
- Real-time visibility replaced delayed, fragmented reporting
- Teams now collaborate using consistent, cross-functional data
Because every function works from a unified view of performance, planning cycles are faster and decisions more informed. With a future-proof, cloud-based architecture in place, the organisation is well-positioned to scale its data capabilities and accelerate transformation across the business.
