Business Intelligence at the Service of Your Goals
The resources required to implement a Business Intelligence (BI) solution are built on several key elements. These include the large volume of transactional data generated through daily operations, as well as knowledge about the client’s industry, competitor activities, and overall market conditions. Furthermore, BI involves much more than simple reporting, despite how it is often portrayed by companies. In practice, the processes of data consolidation and global reporting demand substantial technical infrastructure and significant human resources.
BI Focus Areas
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Revenue Increase
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Make better business decisions at the right moment
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Reduce Operational Costs
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Identify misdirected efforts and wasted resources
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Compete more effectively
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Respond quickly, smoothly, and opportunistically to market strategy shifts
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Analyze and Forecast Demand
If you have any of these questions, and/or are interested in any of the following areas within your company,
then contact us and let’s take on your BI project together.
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How can I monitor key business metrics?
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Do I have quick summary reports for different sales periods (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual)?
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Can I answer business-critical questions quickly and accurately? (e.g., What is the most profitable product by branch/period?)
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Can I obtain projections and estimates of future performance for my product/store/segment/market...?
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Am I constantly requesting reports from the IT department?
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Do I spend more time worrying about the operational aspects of my business than analyzing it?
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How can I tell how effective my marketing campaign was that launched last week to support product XYZ?
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Is the transportation/telecom/security company I’ve contracted the right fit for my business model...?
Areas of our Solutions
Replenishment: Which items to replenish, in what quantities, and when.
Forecasting: Demand forecasting to define required stock levels more accurately.
Marketing: Analysis of transactional data generated by the customer to determine what, how, and when products are being sold, and who is buying them.
Buyer Loop: Purchasing patterns. Identification of specific purchasing patterns followed by the customer based on the time of day.
Product Mix: Defining the correct product mix by sales/distribution channel and/or geographic area, enabling smarter purchasing (“buy to sell, not to stock”).
Transportation: Reduce transportation costs and schedule delivery routes with an optimal cost-benefit ratio. Intelligently distribute cargo based on the nature of the products and the type of transportation.
Inventory Planning: We have solutions designed to optimize the work and management of the field sales force. The goal is to eliminate manual processes and time lags in information during the pre-sales stage on the road, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of sales-related information in the field.
Space Management: Creation of planograms to allocate adequate shelf space to products based on their turnover rate and sales patterns by channel, season, and store.
Customer Loyalty: Implementing initiatives and campaigns aimed at building customer loyalty based on their preferences and purchasing habits.
Market Basket Analysis: Accurate definition of quantities and products for each physical location (warehouse) in the supply chain. (“What to have and where to have it”).
Scorecard: Generation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the business. E.g., current consolidated customer debt, total accounts payable, yesterday’s contribution (margin) for “Store A,” average cash-to-cash cycle time, among others.
Reporting: Complex reports with multidimensional summaries of Sales, Inventory, Purchases, Periods, Locations, Salespeople, Performance, and generally across all key variables and dimensions of the business.