Governing KPIs across 30+ breweries with  InfoHub

AB InBev’s Africa Zone faced a familiar challenge seen across large manufacturing groups. Each brewery operated its own reporting stack. KPIs were defined differently from site to site, and similar metrics often used entirely different formulas. Data lived in spreadsheets, isolated systems and monthly packages that took days to compile. Leadership at the Zone level had no reliable way to compare performance across breweries or roll up utility and production data for broader analysis.

InfoHub became the foundation for solving that problem. Rather than forcing each brewery into a centralised platform, the deployment followed a tiered model. The team started by equipping every site with InfoHub, giving operators and managers a single source of truth for their plant-level KPIs and dashboards. The work eliminated manual duplication and improved confidence in asset performance, energy usage and production KPI calculations.

Once each site had a working model, a governance layer was built at the Zone level. A central template server defined the standardised KPIs, data structures and dashboards that every brewery would reference. Instead of asking people to comply, the system ensured compliance automatically. Every site received the same KPI definitions, the same formulas, and the same event model—no matter which team entered the data or which system the values originated from.

With sites and governance in place, data replication connected breweries to the Zone. Aggregated and event-level KPIs from every plant are now available in near real time, and always structured the same way. For the first time, AB InBev Africa can compare breweries directly, spot outliers immediately and understand the drivers behind high performers. Utility consumption and production calculations can now be rolled up without manual editing. Leaders can evaluate both cost and efficiency at a single site or across the entire region within minutes rather than waiting for month-end spreadsheets.

More than 500 people across the Africa Zone now rely on the system every day. Over 500,000 measures and thousands of operational events, dashboards and forms are actively governed. InfoHub has become part of the operating rhythm of the region, not a side system.

The downstream effect is bigger than Africa. Today, AB InBev’s Africa Zone is the only zone in the company where KPIs are fully standardised. That achievement makes this region the template for the rest of the global organisation. The success has demonstrated that standardised KPIs do not limit individual breweries—they empower them. It is now possible to see operational patterns across geographies, identify where process optimisation will yield the highest return, and build reliable global reporting without forcing every site to rip and replace existing systems.

This case proves that digital transformation at scale does not require a single monolithic software stack. It requires a governed KPI model, consistent definitions and a reliable way to distribute and synchronise those definitions across dozens of operating environments. That is what InfoHub delivered.

If an organisation has multiple sites, varied systems and a desire to compare performance with confidence—not just collect data—InfoHub provides the missing layer. It is the model that turns data into information and information into action, from the plant floor to regional leadership and beyond.