Intelligent Analytics
Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 2
In Part 1 of “Setting Sail with Sales & Operations Planning” I discussed the wide variety of reasons companies move toward a…
Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 1
A number of business challenges are driving more and more companies to formally embrace Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). While the benefits…
Flash Reporting: Tips For Monitoring Your Business Daily
Companies use flash reports to see how the business is doing on a daily basis and to communicate key performance indicators…
Using Analytics to “Trade Up” on Promotional Programs
Marketing professionals are finding more and more creative ways to use trade funds and promotions to increase product turnover and overall sales….
Determining the ROI of Forecasting Systems
Estimating the Return-On-Investment (ROI) for a new demand forecasting system can be difficult and requires an appreciation of the downstream impacts of more…
How Sales Analytics Can Drive Productivity
The volume and complexity of sales information that resides in CRM, ERP and other business systems is increasing with greater velocity to…
Forecasting Information Hub Drives Supply Chain Efficiency
From a manufacturer’s perspective, the effectiveness of relationships with suppliers usually nets out to be a function of price, availability and dependability…
Good Data Visualization Makes for Better Business Decisions
In a recent study of more than 400 IT organizations using Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions, 26% of large companies have implemented…
Measuring The Impact of Absenteeism on a Manufacturing Business
Employee absence is expensive. It’s an area that’s not often tracked; and even when it is, it doesn’t easily reveal its full…
Dashboards: Linking key metrics across the enterprise
How dashboards can help you gain greater visibility into corporate performance Never before has there been more data available to senior executives…