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Creating a Single Source of Truth with a Centralised Data Warehouse

Lisavaird Group's multiple ERPs made group-wide reporting slow, manual, and unreliable. Rubik built a centralised data warehouse that automated consolidation, cut reporting time by 80%, and delivered a 5× ROI.

About Lisavaird Group

Lisavaird Group is a diversified Irish co-operative based in West Cork, founded in 1925. The group operates across dairy and food production, agriculture, and retail, owning businesses such as Glen Aine Foods, Coolmore Fresh Foods, and JDS Foods. With a workforce of 382 and a 2024 turnover of €218.5 million, Lisavaird focuses on quality production, community support, and sustainable practices, celebrating a century of growth and innovation in 2025.

The Challenge

Lisavaird Group operates multiple businesses across the dairy and food production sector, each with its own ERP system and reporting methods. This fragmented environment made consolidating financial, sales, and purchasing data time-consuming and error-prone.

Preparing monthly P&L, cash flow reports, balance sheets, and operational purchasing and sales reports required significant manual effort, and management lacked a single, reliable source of truth to make timely, data-driven decisions across the group.

The Solution

Rubik Technologies designed and implemented a centralised data warehouse to consolidate data from all operating businesses. By pulling data from multiple ERPs using a combination of tailored integration methods, Rubik created a single, unified platform that serves as the authoritative source for all financial and operational reporting.

The data warehouse enabled consolidated financial reporting including P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet across the group; centralised purchasing and sales reporting for accurate insights across all businesses; and automation of previously manual tasks, significantly reducing the time required to complete monthly reporting.

By standardising data and integrating it into a single platform, the group can now make faster, more confident decisions and maintain consistency in reporting across all subsidiaries.

The Results

The implementation delivered measurable benefits across Lisavaird Group's reporting operations. Reporting time was significantly reduced, freeing finance teams to focus on analysis rather than manual consolidation. The group now has accurate, consolidated financial, sales, and purchasing insights with a single source of truth for decision-making — ensuring consistency and reliability of data across all businesses.

Improved visibility of cash flow, purchasing, and sales performance supports better planning and strategic decisions at the group level — delivering €150K in annual efficiency savings, an 80% reduction in reporting time, and a 5× return on investment.

80%

Reduction in reporting time

€150K

Efficiency cost saving per year

Return on investment

What you'll take away

How fragmented ERPs across multiple businesses made consolidated reporting near-impossible The Azure data warehouse Rubik built to unify financial, sales, and purchasing data How automation replaced manual consolidation and freed the finance team for analysis The outcome: 80% less reporting time, €150K annual saving, 5× ROI

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