BIX Tech

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Nexello

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Nexello helps retailers to reduce out-of-stock and overstock at stores and warehouses, through a SaaS ecosystem to improve supply chain processes, such as: distribution planning, sales and purchasing forecasting, yard management and suppliers collaboration.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BIX Tech to accomplish?

• Improve our forecast engines, using advanced machine learning and deep learning architectures

SOLUTION

How did you find BIX Tech?

Online Search

Why did you select BIX Tech over others?

• High ratings
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from BIX Tech were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Improve planning forecast accuracy, using machine learning.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Met project goals according timeline.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Team met deadlines, effective communication and excelent project management.

What was your primary form of communication with BIX Tech?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their project management, data science knowledge, and problem-solving skills stood out.

Are there any areas for improvement or something BIX Tech could have done differently?

No.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Leader of the Commercial Planning and Data Science Tribe.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BIX Technology?

To make available to Grupo Soma's Brands the best BI for monitoring Product Performance.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Categorization of products and product characteristics in best sell well, ok and slow. Using a performance metric and a control group to determine the product rank in a collection and channel.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

• Data Organization (ETL)
• Definition of business rules to be used in calculations
• Creation of codes
• Development of BI screens

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

1 data science.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

It's still in the testing phase, but we hope to provide brands with product classification and product categories based on reliable and robust performance.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Excellent resource.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We're impressed with how very involved they are in the project.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Machine Learning, Analytics, and Data Science.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Financial and technological services company in the banking correspondent business

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BIX Technology, and what were your goals?

Create a pricing intelligence that adheres to the market, given that this market is dynamic, with a daily change of strategy, generating manual work

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We had already worked with Bix professionals in other opportunities. We chose them for their professionalism, speed and quality in technical deliveries. In addition, we consider transparency to be very important when taking on challenges. In no time we were "in the dark", we were aware of the challenge and we were finding solutions together.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Online system, with search and input of results consulting specific information, in order to greatly streamline decision making. We prefer not to detail the scope.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

5 professionals

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We are saving a lot of time that was spent on manual tasks. Using the tool, time was optimized and the hours involved can be used more strategically in the company.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Weekly meetings; Task tracking via Smartsheet

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were transparent with their project management and they're agile with their solutions. 

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Nothing to say

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am human resources analyst and I work for a USD 10B financial company that is all over Brazil!

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BIX Technology, and what were your goals?

Analyze 15 thousand questionnaires with 10 thousand words each. Our idea is to use more of the information we got in the questionnaire in order to make decisions with a higher level of certainty . Our team has a database with 15,000 questionnaires , of which 300 are from people who joined the company, which can be considered "target". From these, we want to use artificial intelligence / NLP to find some pattern in the data and replicate it to the rest, without taking into account gender, race, sexuality, ideology, etc.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We ve been through 15 interviews with companies that could provide us the service, and BIX was the best of all.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

They designed a scope first and than validated with us. After that they made some models based on characters accounting and after based on NPL. Finally we had a model based on both of them. Every single phase was tested and validated with my team.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

1 project manager and 1 developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We were able to have the result on time and in a higher level than we expected. The algorithm could predict very well and it helpd us a lot. We are going to roll out next semester

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

It was great! Everything was finished by the time we agreed and we communicated via Google Meets. It was awesome!

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were all really smart and professional. We could use informal language and they knew how to explain complex things to someone that didnt know about that topic.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Everything was okay.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Systems analyst at the world leader in steel production and one of the largest in mining, the Group has customers in 160 countries and has more than 190 thousand employees.

In its 11 research centers, around 1,300 researchers develop more efficient products and processes, with the aim of generating value for customers and guaranteeing future growth.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BIX Technology?

The support of BIX Tecnologia was requested in the challenge of building the main performance indicators of the Metallurgical Testing Laboratory with agility, reliability and productivity.

What were your goals for this project?

Optimize resources, reducing the time spent on data preparation and increasing time for data analysis.

SOLUTION

How did you select BIX Technology?

We know the company BIX Tecnologia participating in innovation initiatives in partnership with Acate (Associação Catarinense de Tecnologia). BIX Tecnologia participated in a procurement process for the acquisition of IT services.

Describe the project in detail.

The main performance management indicators of the metallurgical laboratory were identified, implemented / automated in QlikSense.

What was the team composition?

Process specialists, project manager, architect, developers, owner, business managers and stakerolders.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

78% reduction in the time spent to acquire and generate performance indicators.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

All members of this initiative were aware of their roles and responsibilities. The project manager (BIX Tecnologia) demonstrated the characteristics necessary for a delivery with quality and punctuality.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The team was committed to providing good service.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No points so far.