Intelligent Analytics
Using Business Intelligence Software to Improve Inventory Levels
A significant cost to many manufacturing and distribution organizations is the inventory they have to carry in order to support customers and…
Rationalizing Supplier Relationships
Organizations today are spending as much as 60 percent of their revenue acquiring the goods and services needed to support their business….
Importance of the Right Data in the Demand Planning Process
The operational side on the intelligent enterprise is driven by Sales and Operations planning and in turn S&OP is driven by an…
Comparing Performance to Plan with a BI Solution: It Should be Simple…
To plan or not to plan … this is not the question for this entry, although it is an interesting topic. In…
Increasing Customer Value with CRM Analytics
Today, the availability of econometric, demographic, lifestyle and psychographic data, business intelligence systems, the internet, and other customer access techniques are helping…
How Manufacturers Can Be More Efficient with Business Intelligence
Manufacturers today are facing more complex business challenges than ever before. In order to stay competitive in a global marketplace manufacturers are…
The Supply Chain Side of Business Intelligence
Getting a 360-degree view of their supply chain is critical for manufacturers and distributors in today’s business world. With business intelligence –…
Self-Service BI – Fill It Up!
The concept of self-service business intelligence has been around for some time. But in today’s business economy, providing consumers of information with…
4 Roadblocks to Strategic Spend Management
Manufacturers and distributors often begin a spend management initiative by starting a labor-intensive data-gathering project. Asking questions like What do we spend,…
Flexible Information Delivery – FID, for short (Part II)
In my earlier post on Flexible Information Delivery (or FID), I described a few ways in which different types of users may…