CLIENT: Private Equity Owned Beauty Industry Distributor

A distributor of beauty products engaged Sapling to help consolidate their sales transactions across multiple business units and multiple data sources into one consolidated Datacube, from which they could run various data cuts to assist the sell-side due diligence preparation

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Key Insights

Sapling built a transactional Datacube of over 20 million sales transactions spanning across 6 businesses, each reporting using different systems prior to being integrated into a common ERP

We standardized data across six data sources to allow for comparison to be done for the period before they had fully integrated all their business units into their ERP

On the completed Datacube we built out additional analysis, such as a price volume analysis to support datapoints to go in to their CIM in preparation for selling the business

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