AutoX harnesses the full power of Data with Decision Inc.’s Data Literacy Solution

AutoX also offers a battery range to cover deep cycle and leisure applications, gel batteries as well as specialised system applications such as lithium and carbon batteries and related products for the solar and renewable energy market. 

AutoX proudly manufactures the well-recognised Willard and Sabat battery brands and is the official distributor of VARTA and Optima Batteries in South Africa and selected African countries.

Currently, AutoX supplies more than 3,000 automotive replacement retail outlets in South Africa and Africa and exports automotive and leisure batteries to selected Sub-Saharan African countries as well as the United Kingdom. With Trinitas, an independent South African equity firm, as its shareholder.

As a market leader providing batteries across thousands of outlets and countries, AutoX required deeper visibility into its systems to improve efficiencies and translate insights into growth.

The company works with significant quantities of data across multiple locations and wanted a solution that would allow for it to fully realise the potential of this data. Leadership had recognised that the data the company owned could support them in making long-term and resilient changes to the business and wanted to focus on a solution that would allow them to measure, manage and utilise the data more effectively.

• The company works in a challenging and competitive market and the executive team wanted insights that would give them visibility into which markets required more focus, where they could optimise, and where they could improve quality.

• They realised they need to implement more than just a robust data platform which would provide the visibility they needed, but they also wanted to invest into a data literacy programme that would ensure the team got the most value from its data platform.

Having already completed a Data Modernisation Programme for AutoX where Decision Inc. developed a new and scalable Analytics Platform in Azure leveraging Power BI, the team moved on to the delivery of the AutoX Data Literacy Programme.

The Transformation Programme ran over a period of seven months and focused on building capability, transforming the learning journey, and empowering their users to truly leverage the power of this new capability.

The decision to combine both the data intelligence and data literacy parts of the project started early on in the process to ensure:

The AutoX Sales teams and management were all provided with training that allowed them to unpack and understand the value of their data. Members of the Exco team of the company also went through the training, to ensure that all layers of management were as equipped as the operators to leverage data.

The sales teams were given customised support to help them improve their insights into customer service, returns, and demand. This helped them to identify new opportunities through data.

The Decision Inc. Data Culture and Literacy Learning Programme enabled:

AutoX took a long term approach to analytics and their focus not only on technology enablement but on driving a Human centered approach to Data Transformation is what sets the company apart from its competitors.

This investment has enabled them to accelerate introducing Data Science into the business and continuously pushing the bounds of their capability, confident in the knowledge that their people are part of the journey to being a Digital Business.

Decision Inc. is a global leader in information-driven transformation with a core focus on data, digital and performance intelligence.

Our expertise in technology and industry specialisations have enabled us to help companies around the world make better decisions faster.

Our emphasis on local excellence and global scale enables us to bring clients best of breed technology solutions that enable significant improvement whilst leveraging our Global Research and Innovation teams to accelerate the time to insight. Our local consulting teams are experts in the implementation, support, and execution of these solutions and work with our clients to deliver real results and improvement.