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Stratum for Manufacturers
Learn how the Silvon Stratum™ suite of BI applications empowers manufacturing companies to gain greater visibility across all areas of the business.
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Stratum for Distributors
See how distributors use Stratum™ to evaluate promotional activities, identify growth opportunities, determine efficient product assortments, and bring greater value to the accounts they serve.
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Stratum for Food, Beverage & CPG
Learn how Stratum™ gives Food / Beverage & CPG decision makers the insight needed to better understand sales trends, demand patterns and trade promotion effectiveness and to drive improvements in inventory, supplier and production performance.
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Stratum for Publishers
Discover how Stratum™ gives publishers greater visibility into demand, title performance and the performance of marketing promotions. And how it also provides in-depth visibility into inventory, returns, reprints, and more.
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Stratum for Retail Ideas
If you’re a JDA Retail IDEAS customer, learn how Stratum’s web-based Viewer can deliver IDEAS analytics to your users in a number of flexible formats.
Application Brochures
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Stratum SPM (Sales Performance Management)
See how Stratum™ SPM can help you identify sales opportunities, improve your sales effectiveness, and more, with its KPI metrics, scorecards, dashboards, reports and alerts.
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Stratum IPM (Inventory Performance Management)
Read how Stratum™ IPM can help you analyze inventory, assess inventory trends, plan and optimize your inventory investments and better manage your inventory positions and projections.
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Stratum SRM-A (Supplier Relationship Management Analytics)
Learn how Stratum™ SRM-A can help you analyze purchase orders, assess average purchase prices and purchase price variances, produce vendor scorecards highlighting delivery performance, lead times, prices and more.
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Stratum CRM-A (Customer Relationship Management Analytics)
See how Stratum™ CRM-A can be used to scorecard your customers in terms of channel revenue, profitability, lifetime value, and more; to segment your customers for up-selling and cross-selling initiatives; and to analyze and help you improve your order fulfillment / service levels.
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Stratum MKM (Marketing Performance Management)
Read how Stratum™ MKM can help you analyze channel performance, assess sell-through and retail performance, analyze trade funds and their effectiveness, and produce category scorecards that spotlight growth areas, trends, UPC price analysis, and more.
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Stratum MPM (Manufacturing Performance Management)
Discover how Stratum™ MPM can help you analyze production performance and generate manufacturing scorecards highlighting downtime, scrap, performance to schedule, production variance, standard utilization, efficiency, and productivity.
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Stratum FPM (Financial Performance Management)
Read how Stratum™ FPM can help you in the area of financial planning and budgeting, G/L analysis, financial reporting, AP/AR management and profitability analysis tied to customers and products.
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Stratum KPIs
Learn what Key Performance Indicators are tracked by Stratum™ and why you need them.
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Stratum Planning
Discover how Stratum’s Planning functionality lets you create collaborative sales plans and budgets with ease using the same flexible interface as Stratum’s analytics.
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Stratum Forecasting
Discover how Stratum™ Forecasting lets you create accurate forecasts quickly and easily using proven statistical forecasting methods.
WEBINARS ON-DEMAND Business Intelligence
On-Demand Webinar (BI)
Defining & Structuring KPIs for Success
Today we collect vast amounts of information and need to leverage it to manage the business. But as former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said, “Too often we measure everything and understand nothing”. That being said, it is appropriate to ask some key questions about what Key Performance Indicators we should measure. During this session, various types of key performance indicators are discussed and a framework is presented to help you decide which ones you should track for your business.
On-Demand Webinar (BI)
Inventory: Asset or Liability?
A significant cost to manufacturing, distribution and retail organizations is the inventory carried to support customers and sales. Effectively managing and minimizing investments in inventory can certainly provide competitive advantage and bottom-line benefits. But accomplishing these tasks can be daunting, particularly when optimal service levels still need to be met. During this session, we look at the key drivers of inventory, the sensitivity of each driver, and how inventory performance metrics can be leveraged to help optimize the management of this important asset. Examples of various inventory metrics are also shown to illustrate their impact on service levels and other critical business areas.
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Implementing KPIs
Effectively implementing key performance indicators requires more than just selecting the right metrics. It is a project for which success is tied to how well the system is used to manage the business. In this session, we present some “do’s” and “don’ts” to help you avoid common pitfalls that we have seen in key performance indicator projects over the years.
WEBINARS ON-DEMAND Forecasting / S&OP
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Demand Forecasting Best Practices
Learn how successful demand-driven companies are approaching the demand forecasting process! During this session, we cover some forecasting essentials, help you better understand demand influences and their effects, explore various methods for using downstream data to improve the demand planning process, and discuss the key elements of a continuous forecast improvement plan. In addition, we share some best practices in generating baseline forecasts and leveraging analytics to measure forecast accuracy, improve forecasts over time, and better manage requirements related to manufacturing, inventory control and customer service.
On-Demand Webinar (Forecasting / S&OP)
Measuring and Managing the Forecasting Process
Demand forecasting is one of the most difficult processes to manage and perhaps one of the most important processes to affect many downstream activities, as well as the overall efficiency of the business. In this session, we explain some approaches for establishing a practical forecasting process, evaluate various forecasting methodologies, share some industry benchmarks for success, and discuss key measurements that should be used in controlling the forecasting process.
WHITE PAPERS Business Intelligence
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The Bottom Line of CRM: Know Your Customer
Discover how customer analytics can help you make more informed decisions related to winning, retaining and keeping your customers profitable.
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Rise of the Intelligent Supply Chain
Find out how manufacturers are meeting today’s supply chain challenges through the use of collaboration and business performance analytics.
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Spend Analysis: The Foundation Of Strategic Cost Management
Inadequate spending analysis is a corporate epidemic that costs companies $260 billion in missed savings. Discover how supply spending analysis can yield significant bottom-line cost reductions.
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Leveraging Technology for Trade Funds Management & Promotional Planning
In this paper, we’ll discuss and share some best practices for tracking trades funds and their effectiveness in successfully promoting products and sales.
WEBINARS ON-DEMAND Forecasting / S&OP
On-Demand Webinar (Forecasting / S&OP)
Demand Forecasting Best Practices
Learn how successful demand-driven companies are approaching the demand forecasting process! During this session, we cover some forecasting essentials, help you better understand demand influences and their effects, explore various methods for using downstream data to improve the demand planning process, and discuss the key elements of a continuous forecast improvement plan. In addition, we share some best practices in generating baseline forecasts and leveraging analytics to measure forecast accuracy, improve forecasts over time, and better manage requirements related to manufacturing, inventory control and customer service.
On-Demand Webinar (Forecasting / S&OP)
Measuring and Managing the Forecasting Process
Demand forecasting is one of the most difficult processes to manage and perhaps one of the most important processes to affect many downstream activities, as well as the overall efficiency of the business. In this session, we explain some approaches for establishing a practical forecasting process, evaluate various forecasting methodologies, share some industry benchmarks for success, and discuss key measurements that should be used in controlling the forecasting process.
StratumViewer Show Me Videos
Adding Multiple Measure Items
Measure items can be added to your Stratum views one at a time or in batches. Tune in to this demo to learn how.
Building Views (Time Hierarchies)
With Stratum, Administrators can build views with time hierarchies in just a few quick steps. This demo shows you how it’s done.
Building Views (Time Ranges)
Administrators can create Stratum views with time ranges very quickly. Tune in to learn how in this demo.
Creating Email Actions
Administrators and advanced users can create and schedule Email actions for distributing Stratum information to others. Tune in to learn how.
Creating File Share Actions
Administrators and advanced users can easily create actions for sharing Stratum files with others. In this demo, we’ll show you how it’s done.
Drag and Drop
Stratum lets you re-configure views on the fly using Drag and Drop functionality. View this demo to learn how easy it is to do!
Editing Measure Items
You can edit multiple measure items at a time using the Edit Measure Item window in Stratum. Hit PLAY to learn more.
Filtering Measure Items
There are many choices for filtering measure items in Stratum. This demo shows you how you can filter for values above or below certain amounts, by overall top or bottom values, and by recursive top or bottom values. Hit PLAY to tune in!
Filtering With User Lists
Stratum User Lists offer a convenient way to pre-define a group of members that can be used for filtering purposes over and over again in different views. Click PLAY to learn how you can incorporate these lists in your own views.
Inserting Charts
Stratum charts can make it easy for you to see patterns and trends in data. In this demo, we’ll show you the types of charts that Stratum supports and how you can create them from the data on your Viewer grid.
Using Conditional Formats
Any user can use conditional formatting in Stratum to visually highlight data in the Viewer grid using indicators that are based on a predefined set of criteria. We’ll show you how it’s done in this demo.
Using Parameters
Tune into this demo to see how parameters can be used to prompt users to select the set of data they want to see in a view before executing the view. This includes the use of drop-down lists, member selections, user lists and expressions.
Using StratumViewer Calculations
A set of functions are available for setting up specialized calculations in Stratum.Viewer. Tune into this demo to learn more about them and how you can use them in your own calculations.
Application Videos
Stratum BI: Flexible Information Delivery
Stratum offers a flexible information delivery framework that addresses the different roles, skill sets and information needs of analysts, executives and other "information consumers" throughout the organization. Tune in as we describe this Flexible Information Delivery structure in more detail for you.