Kanerika cuts FoodPharma reporting time to 90 minutes with Microsoft Fabric

Kanerika’s Microsoft Fabric rollout for FoodPharma unified six operational systems into one governed data platform and reduced cross-functional reporting from two business days to about 90 minutes. The move also set up FoodPharma to explore predictive maintenance and other AI use cases. Why it matters: - FoodPharma can now get cross-functional answers fast enough to support same-day operational decisions. - The Microsoft Fabric platform replaced manual spreadsheet work across production, maintenance, labor and financial reporting. - The new data foundation gives FoodPharma a path to enterprise AI use cases tied to compliance-critical metrics. What happened: - Kanerika modernized FoodPharma’s reporting environment with Microsoft Fabric and was recognized in an official Microsoft Customer Story. - The engagement unified six core systems: NetSuite, RedZone, Parity Factory, UpKeep, Paychex and Outlook. - FoodPharma is a contract developer and manufacturer of functional food delivery systems based in Santa Fe Springs, California. - Kanerika completed the Microsoft Fabric implementation in seven weeks. The details: - The platform consolidated more than 50 tables and about 1 TB of historical data into Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake. - Data Pipelines and Dataflow Gen2 now automate daily refreshes. - Power BI gives FoodPharma teams a consistent place to build reports and query operational data directly. - Cross-functional reporting time fell from two business days to about 90 minutes, a 32x speedup. - FoodPharma’s BI team recovered about 15 hours a week that had been spent on manual extraction and reconciliation. - Plant managers who once waited two days to diagnose a yield issue can now get an answer by mid-morning. Between the lines: - The project solved a data fragmentation problem as much as a reporting problem. - A single governed environment with traceability to source systems is often the missing step before predictive analytics can scale. - The results suggest the biggest gain came from eliminating repeated manual reconciliation, not just from faster software. - Kanerika’s placement in Microsoft’s ecosystem reinforces the company’s positioning in Fabric-led modernization work. What’s next: - FoodPharma is evaluating predictive maintenance, yield optimization and real-time anomaly detection on compliance-critical metrics. - Kanerika is likely to use the FoodPharma work to support more Microsoft Fabric deployments across manufacturing and other industries. - The customer story adds to Kanerika’s published Fabric track record in logistics, manufacturing, finance and retail. The bottom line: - FoodPharma turned a two-day reporting process into a 90-minute workflow, and the new Fabric foundation opens the door to AI-driven operations.