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How IO Tek engagements changed day-to-day operations for two clients — in their words, and in the numbers we tracked against their starting baseline.

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Food Service Operations

GSR Backoffice Management System

75% less manual data entry with real-time financial visibility

GSR Backoffice replaced fragmented spreadsheets and disconnected systems with a single operational hub. The team gained faster closes, cleaner payroll runs, and real-time visibility into store performance.

Executive Summary

GSR Backoffice is a centralized operations platform for a multi-location food service chain, bringing sales, payroll, employee data, reconciliation, and analytics into one system.

Manual data entry

75% down

20+ hours per week reduced to 5

Month-end close

80% faster

3-4 days reduced to 4-6 hours

Payroll import

99.4% faster

40 hours/week reduced to 15 minutes

Annual savings

$53K+

Recovered through payroll automation alone

Challenge

The client was spending hours reconciling sales across multiple locations and payment processors, maintaining payroll in disconnected spreadsheets, and waiting days for month-end numbers they needed in real time.

Solution

  • Unified financial dashboard with automatic reconciliation across payment processors and delivery platforms
  • Payroll automation with RPA-based data import, validation, overtime logic, and audit trails
  • Employee portal with role-based access control and centralized record keeping
  • Executive analytics for store scorecards, KPI tracking, and variance analysis
  • Operational tooling for bulk imports, reconciliation workflows, and custom reporting

Results

75% reduction in manual data entry time

80% faster month-end close process

99.4% reduction in payroll import time

$53K+ annual payroll processing savings

Real-time visibility across stores and departments

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Retail Intelligence

GSR Dashboard

Store performance intelligence in one executive view

GSR Dashboard turns fragmented store data into a clearer operational picture, helping leaders compare locations, track risk, and review performance with far less manual effort.

Executive Summary

GSR Dashboard is a retail performance intelligence platform that helps operations teams monitor store health, compare locations, and act on trends without relying on disconnected spreadsheets or manual reporting.

Reporting cycle

5 weeks → live

KPI visibility moved from a manual spreadsheet to live updates

Analyst time recovered

~30 hours

Recovered each reporting cycle by eliminating manual compilation

Annual reporting cost eliminated

$8.2K+

Estimated from the five-week KPI build process alone

Portfolio visibility

Real-time

Store-level trends and alerts surfaced immediately

Challenge

Before GSR Dashboard, management only had visibility through a KPI Excel sheet that an employee manually created every five weeks. Store performance data, alerts, scorecards, and financial inputs were fragmented, slow to interpret, and difficult to compare consistently across locations.

Solution

  • Store-first navigation for selecting and comparing locations quickly
  • Live KPI dashboards that replace the manually built five-week Excel reporting cycle
  • Intelligence panels for profile context, KPI summaries, and performance status
  • Alerts and risk monitoring with historical alert activity
  • Weekly reporting tables for structured trend review
  • Financial and scorecard trend views for operational decision-making

Results

Consolidated operational and financial visibility into one interface

Moved KPI visibility from a manually built spreadsheet every five weeks to live updates

Reduced time spent collecting and reconciling data

Improved consistency in store performance review

Made risk and trend changes easier to spot early

Supported faster, more confident operational decisions

What would this look like for your operation?

Tell us where the manual work piles up and we will map it against what we have already automated.

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