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Demand Forecasting Should Be a Core Competency
For many US manufacturers, the business landscape has changed dramatically over the past several years. Not only have we endured a downturn…
Understanding Your Suppliers with Business Analytics
Recent studies show that the ability to produce hard cost savings that impact the bottom line is now the primary focus of…
The “Roles” of Business Intelligence
Many organizations use business intelligence technologies to drive their businesses forward. The key is to deploy solutions that users can leverage to…
3 Ways Business Intelligence Can Improve Your Sales and Marketing Efforts
With today’s business intelligence dashboards, end users in every department of the organization have a more effective means of gaining greater insight…
How Different Members of Your Company Can Use Predictive Analytics
As part of a business intelligence system, predictive analytics process historical data (such as customer buying trends, inventory performance, financial performance, and…
Uncovering Supplier Savings Opportunities with Business Intelligence
In order to optimize vendor relationships and ultimately cut spending, procurement professionals need to be able to answer key questions related to…
Guidelines for Estimating the Payback of a Demand Forecasting Solution
Most companies that make the decision to move to an automated demand forecasting solution are primarily driven by: Obvious forecast accuracy challenges…
An Evolutionary Approach to BI
Phased deployment is a strategy that favors an incremental approach to rolling out Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, typically starting with a single…
The Right Processes Will Make or Break Demand Planning
Managing an effective demand planning process is challenging even in a small company and can be the primary source of problems or…
Data Consistency is Key to Analytics
Whether it’s “simply” the data that gets generated by the business applications we support or the availability of data from other sources…