Cibao Meat Products Unlocks Data Insights 10x Faster with Slingshot
11 Julio 2024 - 8:01AM
Cibao Meat Products, the Hispanic-style meats company
delivering high quality products for over 50 years, today announced
the results of its first 6 months of work with
Slingshot,
the data driven work management platform from software company
Infragistics. The family company, now in its third
generation of leadership, has been working with Slingshot since
October 2023 to bring together all its organizational data into one
central location. With all of its data in one place, Cibao Meat
Products has accelerated the rate of its data reporting tenfold,
enabling teams to seamlessly integrate data insights into their
everyday tasks, drive better decisions, and increase cash flow by
up to 65% as a result.
Founded in 1969, Cibao Meat Products has been providing families
with a variety of Hispanic deli meat products for 55 years. Now
spanning wholesale stores including BJ’s, Sam’s Club and Costco, as
well as 500 supermarkets and restaurants, the company’s products
can be found across the United States. Even with this expansion,
Cibao Meat Products has stayed true to the first generation’s
traditional values and processes, maintaining a family environment
within the workplace. Along with keeping those traditions to create
its food however, Cibao Meat Products–like many other
multi-generational businesses– also was still relying on the mostly
manual processes that started the company.
When Cibao Meat Products set out to modernize these practices,
it looked to Slingshot to compile its data from multiple sources
into one central hub accessible to every employee. Because the
company still relied heavily on legacy processes, Cibao Meat
Products’ company and customer data was siloed throughout
departments from sales to manufacturing to accounting. Teams were
manually gathering this data and creating reports on a weekly or
bi-weekly basis which prevented real-time visibility into
business-critical options. Not to mention, these more
administrative tasks took hours of teams’ time.
With Slingshot, Cibao Meat Products has now enhanced data
transparency across the company, giving teams a holistic view into
their data and allowing them to easily derive meaning from it to
put into action. Employees can now create reports within minutes,
eliminating the biweekly reports in favor of daily assessments and
unlocking insights needed to make critical decisions 10x faster
than before - saving 120 hours a month. For example, with real-time
access to its customer payments data the company’s accounts
receivable team was able to notice any discrepancies or pending
payments in real time. This allowed the team to check in with
customers as quickly as they saw an issue, increasing their cash
flow by $40,000 a week on average.
“As a third-generation leader of a multi-generational company, I
put an emphasis on bringing our business into the digital future
and utilizing technologies that will help propel success. Slingshot
has been instrumental in establishing a faster rhythm for our
business and driving growth,” said Heinz Vieluf Jr., President of
Cibao Meat Products. “We are now able to see the full picture of
our data across the organization in real time, informing strategy
and speeding up decisions and communications, something that’s
critical in a customer facing industry. We’ve transformed how our
teams work, productivity is up, and employees and customers alike
are happier.”
With teams saving hours each week on reporting, Cibao Meat
Products is also able to concentrate on higher value tasks,
specifically those directly serving consumers. Employees have more
time to connect one on one with customers and develop
relationships, instead of getting held up in the backend. This has
additionally allowed the team to focus on new marketing efforts and
promotions, not only driving up customer satisfaction, but also
helping to grow existing customer relationships and develop new
ones.
“We created Slingshot to bring together data that has
traditionally been spread across departments into one completely
accessible space so that companies can better drive productivity,
insights, and ultimately business results,” said Dean Guida,
Founder of Slingshot. “By bringing its data into a central
location, Cibao Meat Products has unlocked insights that have
allowed them to move strategically and at a faster pace,
strengthening the company’s bottom line.”
You can learn more about Slingshot and Cibao Meat Products in
the complete case study here.
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About Cibao Meat ProductsCibao Meat Products Inc is a
food production company based out of NJ, United States. Established
since 1969, we are a family run business in manufacturing Hispanic
styled sausages famously known as salami. We also manufacture
longaniza and chorizo. Aside from our own products, we are
available for clients interested in private labels.
About Slingshot
Slingshot is the data-driven work management
platform that connects everyone you work with to everything they
need to get work done. The platform streamlines companies’
workplace tech stacks by giving remote, in-person and hybrid teams
a single place to collaborate, make data-driven decisions, set
goals, share content, and communicate within the context of the
projects they’re working on. Slingshot puts an end to the
interrupted workflows that result from constant app-switching and
places data analytics central to decision-making, helping
organizations create data-driven cultures. With clarity on
priorities, workload and expectations, teams are empowered to
manage their work, no matter where they are. Slingshot is available
as a desktop app (Mac and Windows) and mobile app (Apple App Store
and Google Play), and can be accessed on any web browser at
slingshotapp.io. The platform was built by software company
Infragistics.
Beth Brody
Infragistics
908-295-0600
beth@brodypr.com