CUSTOMER STORY // ALPHA AUTO GROUP (AAG)
Data-Driven Strategies Set To Fuel Growth
Alpha Auto Group slashes key process times and standardizes operations across its expanding business.
Seconds
instead of hours or days
Automated data transfers enabled by Qlik eliminate the need for manual reporting and time-consuming updates.
2 weeks
cut from IFRS reporting
Streamlined IFRS reporting saves AAG up to two weeks a quarter while also improving accuracy.
Exponential
expansion enabled
Optimized processes and standardized accounting allow AAG’s agile management teams to focus on growth.
CHALLENGE
Embracing growth and innovation
In just a decade since its foundation, Alpha Auto Group (AAG) has become the world’s largest Canada-based dealership group, building an impressive reputation for efficient operations and high-quality service.
As AAG expanded, it realized that it was also outgrowing standard manual reporting practices. Its franchises used a range of platforms and dealer management systems (DMS), which made acquiring data quickly and consistently a time-consuming process. Traditional tools also struggled to manage AAG’s growing international presence.
APPROACH
Implementing a foundational tool
AAG met with Capital Data Analytics, a Wisconsin-based Qlik Elite Partner and the developer of VizAuto – a collection of customizable Qlik accelerator applications and support services tailored specifically for the automobile sector. A joint Capital Data Analytics and Qlik team presented the solution to AAG’s senior stakeholders and then to the group’s owner. The verdict was universally positive.
Capital Data Analytics and AAG began work on deploying reporting across the business. Capital Data Analytics handled development tasks, working with AAG’s infrastructure team which handled data intake and extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes.
RESULTS
Accelerated processes fuel expansion
Data provided by the VizAuto team quickly played a pivotal role in securing a key acquisition for AAG. It was also an exciting indicator of what was to come. With Qlik and the VizAuto team’s support, managers from stores to AAG’s headquarters are saving time and costs. Monthly profit and loss (P&L) reports are now produced in seconds instead of hours while International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting is more accurate, saving the business up to two weeks every quarter.
The VizAuto team is improving collaboration between AAG’s warranty and accounting teams and plays an important role in standardizing charts of accounts across the business.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
A cross-platform, cross-country solution
By acquiring and analyzing data from a plethora of systems and platforms, AAG can work consistently and between locations – and even between countries. It’s a system that’s saving time and eliminating roadblocks in all parts of the business.
Data-driven strategies are now fueling impressive successes at AAG and powering ambitious expansion plans. Working with a Qlik Elite Partner, Capital Data Analytics, also enables AAG to keep its operations lean and agile and focus on maximizing the multiple operational benefits that VizAuto services deliver.
Data has to be a core strategy for any company that wants to succeed and democratizing data is an important goal that Qlik is helping us achieve.
