IT current-state · Northwind Retail

Legacy retail reporting landscape

File exports, desktop spreadsheets, and manual publication before a shared data platform.

Northwind Retail current IT landscape Three zones show collection, processing, and dissemination through manual file handoffs. COLLECTION PROCESSING DISSEMINATION Point-of-Sale Exportsnightly · CSV Online Store Exportorders · flat file Supplier Price Listsexternal · XLSX Shared Driveno version controldepartment folders Spreadsheet Handoffslocal workbooks · macrosmanual reconciliation On-prem RDBMSinventory · finance Reporting Portalmanual refresh Email Report Packsweekly · PDF Regional Managers12 store regions CSV EXPORT XLSX COPY LOAD XLSX PDF EMAIL LEGEND data flow pain-point external bottleneck