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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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In today’s fast paced manufacturing environment, procurement organizations are struggling to get the right level of visibility into business performance. The current approach of using cumbersome spreadsheets and ERP reports takes too long and fails to provide the insight needed for better decision making.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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Success in today’s highly competitive business environment requires manufacturing organizations to perform increasingly complex tasks—from coordinating global supply chains and managing expansive product catalogues to meeting unexpected surges in product demand.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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The explosive growth in the volume of transactional data being generated has highlighted an urgent need for companies to address certain challenges if they are to capture, analyze and use big data, creatively and effectively, to drive business performance
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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A lot has changed since Business Intelligence first came into scene as after-the-fact static data reports of information collected over a period of time
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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It is not enough to know that deliveries are ‘on time’; to improve performance, it is equally important is to know how often deliveries are on time, which customers are affected by poor delivery performance and what is the value and quantity of the late items
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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Supply chain managers are often in a fix when measuringPerfect Order Fulfillment. Most of their troubles arise from either measuring too much or not knowing how to define and build the reports that they need.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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BI tools have evolved from being reactive instruments to proactive assets. They have grown from static to dynamic and transformed from reflective to predictive. They’ve passed from the hands of power users to give power to the users.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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Minimizing or eliminating waste at every step of the manufacturing process is the quintessence of lean manufacturing. In the lean system, inventory is recognized as waste or inefficient when the on-hand inventory that a plant maintains is more than what is required in the immediate production cycle. 
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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Industry analysts expect business analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) to grow three times faster than the traditional business analytics software market. The prime reason for this increased enthusiasm for cloud-based BI and analytics solutions is their ability to speed up the delivery of actionable analytics to business users.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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In a highly competitive manufacturing landscape, good supplier on-time delivery performance has become vital to cost-cutting and operational efficiency.  Factors such as increased outsourcing and reliance on outside suppliers, globalization of supply chains, and volatile supply markets have laid additional impetus on supplier OTD performance in today’s extended enterprises.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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We’re excited to announce a new partnership with KloudData, an SAP BusinessObjects partner. KloudData brings extensive experience in consulting, integration, customization, implementation, and deployment of BI solutions for SAP. This new partnership will enable KloudData to extend the value of customers’ existing SAP and BusinessObjects investments.
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charlieholland1-blog · 13 years ago
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The Business Intelligence (BI) market has come a long way since the term ‘business intelligence’ was first introduced into the corporate lexicon in the late ‘80s. Today, we can say, and in no uncertain terms, that BI has matured into a global industry comprising of thousands of vendors.
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