Tarmac is the well-known manufacturer of building materials operating from many locations around the UK. They required an internal system that all of their staff could use, irrespective of their location, to propose business improvement opportunities, with a focus on operational efficiency and cost-savings.
For some years, they had been using a spreadsheet-based system, but this was cumbersome as each proposal had to be circulated and signed off by multiple tiers of management. It was also very complicated and time consuming to aggregate the data from the proposals to identify the overall cost savings for management reporting.
So they turned to Blueberry to build a cloud-based system to replace the spreadsheets. The software enables any member of staff to log in, enter details of their proposal with costed data and then pass it to line management and the finance department to validate and approve. A comprehensive set of dashboards and reports was also produced including the ability to export data to Excel for further analysis.
