Customer Success Story – Boyd Corporation

Customer Success Story – Boyd Corporation

Customer Success Story – Boyd Corporation

Boyd Corporation Leverages Cyberquery – Improves Efficiencies and Business Insights 

by Rob Little

 

Steve Price of Boyd Corp. spoke with me about implementing Cyberquery and the benefits.

“Through our implementation of Cyberquery, we have saved over $500,000 in improved efficiencies over the past three years.”

Best in class manufacturing organizations are under increasing pressure to streamline their processes and cut overhead costs. Faced with these issues, Boyd Corporation, headquartered in Modesto, CA, selected Cyberquery as the  corporate business intelligence and report  writing solution.

Steve Price, IT Manager at Boyd stated, “Through our implementation of Cyberquery, we have saved over $500,000 in improved efficiencies over the past three years. And that’s being conservative.” Price went on to say, “The exceptional speed and ease of use of Cyberquery have made these savings possible. In addition, Cyberquery has empowered the organization’s leadership to make quality decisions. We are gaining previously unavailable business insight and our executive team is now able to make swift and informed decisions that were just not possible before we implemented Cyberquery.”

In one instance Cyberquery was used to create an accounts receivable (AR) information management solution for their corporate AR department. The return gained by this, after a two-day Cyberscience services engagement, was an annual saving of $90,000.

“Time saving initiatives such as this one has made a major impact on staff job satisfaction and morale.”

Boyd’s IT department has also integrated Cyberquery with the corporation’s ERP and CRM systems. Through Cyberquery’s  Webreporting, scheduling and built-in email functionality, all of Boyd’s customer shipment and tracking information is automatically emailed to each customer’s procurement team every day. “The shipment notification solution was created in only 2 hours. As a result of this successful initiative our account relationship management team has saved 4 man hours of telephone communications every single day. A remarkable return” stated Price. “Time saving initiatives such as this one has made a major impact on staff job satisfaction and morale”, Price added.

Another successful use of Cyberquery has been the distribution in real-time of key sales and margin information to the senior management team at Boyd. These matrices are generated on a scheduled basis through the Cyberquery  scheduling service, Qdirector. This facilitates fast and effective collaborative decision making.

Boyd Corporation’s requirements are not unique; all manufacturing organizations are under similar constraints and pressures to supply goods at lower costs with associated diminishing margins. By using Cyberquery, organizations can improve efficiencies, cut costs, and gain useful business insight.

About Boyd Corporation

Boyd Corporation is the global market leader in custom fabricated sealing and energy management solutions. They supply innovative engineered solutions in the areas of environmental seals and gaskets, energy management, EMI shielding, acoustic and thermal insulation, shock and vibration absorption and bonding systems.

If you have a need for a new business intelligence solution that provides benefits as Steve describes, contact Cyberscience for a demo or test drive.  – info@cyberscience.com.

Author: Rob Little is a Cyberquery Consultant.

Customer Success Story – Tidewell

Customer Success Story – Tidewell

Customer Success Story – Tidewell

Cyberquery Delivers Beyond Expectations for Florida’s Largest Home Hospice & Palliative Care Oraganization

by Brad Jackson

 

Lou Freitas of Tidewell spoke with me about the value of their Cyberquery implementation.

“Cyberquery has already saved Tidewell over $180,000 and we expect to save another $360,000 once all reporting projects are up and functional. This labor savings equates to $540,000!”

In the ever-changing healthcare environment, organizations are pressured to deliver a better quality of care while at the same time minimize costs. Faced with these challenges, Tidewell Hospice, headquartered in Sarasota, FL, evaluated several business intelligence (BI) tools to better understand their data. After considering several products, Tidewell Hospice selected Cyberquery from Cyberscience Corporation as their organization-wide business intelligence and report writing solution.

“Our annual report to the Department of Elder Affairs on patient pain at admission was  dramatically improved in both accuracy and time savings.”

One of the first projects completed with  Cyberquery improved the pain management measurement of all Tidewell patients. With the existing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) package, patient pain level could only be reported on the first pain assessment of the day. This process used to take multiple hours per month and is now automated. With Cyberquery, Tidewell now reports on pain management in real-time  throughout the patient’s care.

After a few months of using Cyberquery, Tidewell decided to utilize Cyberquery to measure patient costs more accurately. Tidewell uses Suncoast Solutions™ EMR and Sage MAS 500 accounting applications and needed data from both systems in order to accomplish this analysis. Tidewell accomplished its patient costing project by developing a system of Cyberquery reports which queries and exports financial and clinical data from both applications. It can now report against its patient costs at any time and schedule reports for distribution to key stakeholders. This additional insight into patient costs helps Tidewell maintain a high quality of care in light of Medicare reimbursement reductions.

Tidewell Hospice continues to explore ways to leverage Enterprise Cyberquery and complete future projects including:

    • Clinical and administrative productivity optimization to meet service area demands
    • Cost management for medications and supplies
    • Charitable community activity validation and management
    • Labor savings due to automation
    • Key Performance Indicator management

About Tidewell

Tidewell servers more than 1,200 patients a day in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties. Tidewell is one of the largest programs of its kind in the U.S. Home-based palliative care is the basic premise of the program, involving the support of physicians, registered nurses, social service counselors, home health aides and volunteers, all following a prescribed plan of care. Tidewell’s services are available to everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

If you have a need for a new business intelligence solution that provides benefits as Lou describes, contact Cyberscience for a demo or test drive.  – info@cyberscience.com.

Author: Brad Jackson, Business Development Manager at Cyberscience.