Eliminating 20 Hours of Weekly Reporting

A mid-size logistics operator running routes across multiple regions had a team of two analysts spending every Monday generating the same 12 operational reports for department heads. The reports pulled from three different systems - a TMS, a WMS, and a custom Excel-based tracker. Consolidation alone took 6 hours. The remaining 14 hours were spent formatting, charting, and distributing.

The problem was compounding: new data sources were being added, report requests were increasing, and the analysts were burning out.

We mapped all 12 reports in day one and identified that 10 of them could be fully automated with zero human intervention. The remaining 2 required a 10-minute review step before distribution.

We built a Python pipeline that connected to all three source systems via API, ran the extraction and consolidation on a Monday 4am schedule, generated PDF and Excel outputs using a template engine, and distributed via email automatically. A simple web dashboard let department heads access live versions between Monday distributions.