This RSR custom research report explores the impact of omnichannel methods on merchandising, marketing and the supply chain; specifically, what analytical capabilities address the challenges that omnichannel selling and fulfillment pose for retailers. Consumers today routinely begin their shopping journeys online, but complete their purchases in nearby stores, in their “home” stores or delivered directly to their doors. Retail analytics enables organizations to capture data from their customers' journeys. Retailers that successfully deliver relevant omnichannel experiences while gaining a more sophisticated understanding of demand (where and how it is initiated) will enhance their brands’ value and create compelling and profitable customer relationships.
Published By: OpenText
Published Date: Mar 02, 2017
Watch this webinar with IDC supply chain experts to learn how embedded analytics can provide deeper supply chain intelligence and help you extract maximum value from data for your supply chain operations.
Published By: T Systems
Published Date: Nov 28, 2018
The wait is over. Here at T-Systems, we are proud to present the findings of CXP Group - a leading independent European research and advisory firm in the field of digital, software and IT services. Their new “Digital Industrial Transformation with the Internet of Things” report examines the dynamic range of opportunities that IoT holds for businesses and explores the challenges of integrating existing data processes with those that are IoT enabled.
The report is the result of the feedback cultivated from interviews with senior business and IT decision-makers responsible for creating and running innovation strategies at 250 large-scale European manufacturers. The data has been disseminated by region, strategies, pain points, IoT adoption, intention, investment etc. and provides readers with a detailed examination of what industrial businesses look for most from IoT.
The report provides a fascinating unearthing of influencing factors for IoT readiness and digitization as a whole. Using
Published By: FusionOps
Published Date: Jun 15, 2016
Download this white paper to learn why Merck Animal Health's Dave Williams is striving for self service supply chain analytics with the help of cloud software.
This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment.
The transformation of supply chain management is happening now. IoT is driving that change, but supply chain analytics is instrumental in taming the massive amounts of data generated by IoT sensors, devices and objects and turning it into insight and into a competitive edge. Smart companies recognize this.
Advancements in analytics have sparked renewed excitement in the consumer products (CP) industry. Maturing analytics capabilities are now delivering greater value across major CP functions including marketing, sales, merchandising, supply chain, and more. Thus helping CP companies become more consumer and customer focused in all aspects of their businesses. Read this research report conducted by 'Consumer Goods Technology' to understand how, next-gen analytics capabilities is key in unlocking a deeper understanding of customers, help create successful new products, foster brand advocates and optimize distribution channels and ultimately shape demand
Digital transformation is poised to change the supply chain more
profoundly than any other functional area and more dramatically than at
any point in its history in terms of driving efficiency and resiliency to
disruption. In the context of the challenges facing supply chains, both now
and in the future, it becomes clear that the old ways of working will not
suffice and that even best-in-class performance today is unlikely to be good
enough in the future. It is the view of IDC that the supply chain must
become a "thinking" supply chain, one that is intimately connected to all
data sources, enabled with comprehensive and fast analytics, openly
collaborative through cloud-based commerce networks, conscious of
cyberthreats, and cognitively interwoven. According to IDC supply chain research, technology is emerging as a prime
driver of change, particularly artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Whether you’re onboarding new customers, cross- or up-selling, getting your supply chain or logistics right, or even collecting unpaid debt, making the best choice of decisions means weighing not just what’s right for your department – but what is best for the business overall. Not to mention what is optimal for your customers and partners.
And let’s face it, even with the availability of business intelligence and other analytic tools, it’s hard to know what constitutes the right actions to take in an era where Big Data consistently throws you curveballs. Prescriptive Analytics can help – but for most organizations, there are more questions and concerns than answers about how to implement it successfully.
Read our white paper on how Prescriptive Analytics can transform your business decisions and actions – leveraging your existing analytics investment and organizational DNA while helping you drive transparency, customer experience, and profits
Forget making business decisions with outdated data. Keep operations on track with real-time insights from every facet of your business including finance to supply chain management. “The Operations Guru’s Guide to Oracle EBS” will help you master more efficient company operations so you can focus on making a massive operational impact. Tactical insights, covering:
How your team can create usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking progress against company-wide KPIs from multiple systems, without leaning heavily on IT
An industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and analytics from ERP and other critical data sources
How Finance and IT leaders at Ladbrokes replaced Oracle reports and quit having to manipulate data in static spreadsheets
Forget making business decisions with outdated data. Keep operations on track with real-time insights from every facet of your business including finance to supply chain management. “The Operations Guru’s Guide to JD Edwards” will help you master more efficient company operations so you can focus on making a massive operational impact. Tactical insights, covering:
How your team can create usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking progress against company-wide KPIs from multiple systems, without leaning heavily on IT
An industry analyst’s view on how to get better reporting and analytics from ERP and other critical data sources
How Bibby Distribution gave users throughout the company the ability to drill down into reports to get exactly the detail they needed to address immediate business issues
Published By: Pentaho
Published Date: Mar 08, 2016
If you’re evaluating big data integration platforms, you know that with the increasing number of tools and technologies out there, it can be difficult to separate meaningful information from the hype, and identify the right technology to solve your unique big data problem. This analyst research provides a concise overview of big data integration technologies, and reviews key things to consider when creating an integrated big data environment that blends new technologies with existing BI systems to meet your business goals.
Read the Buyer’s Guide to Big Data Integration by CITO Research to learn:
• What tools are most useful for working with Big Data, Hadoop, and existing transactional databases
• How to create an effective “data supply chain”
• How to succeed with complex data on-boarding using automation for more reliable data ingestion
• The best ways to connect, transport, and transform data for data exploration, analytics and compliance
This whitepaper first looks at the fundamental requirements that a BI solution should deliver to your company. Next, this whitepaper covers the 11 Key Questions that you should be asking of a future BI technology partner. When the BI provider can answer Yes to all of these questions, you have BI that is capable of fulfilling your analytical and reporting needs .
Birst’s Salesforce Reporting and Analytics helps sales managers analyze all of the critical salesforce.com data to uncover insightful pipeline information. Combining sales data with marketing, financial and operational data to obtain a comprehensive view of the pipeline is where Birst excels.
Discover seven indications that you need advanced analytics for your CRM application and why they matter. Learn about common CRM data analysis pain points and how advanced CRM analytics can solve them.
Covering 23 vendors and 5 market segments, the 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study helps readers understand the current market landscape including the perceptions and plans of organizations adopting BI solutions, the latest user trends and technology.
This BI guide has 10 real-life business scenarios that will elicit your business intelligence requirements in plain English. Key stakeholders and executive sponsors will get an easy-to-digest view of business intelligence requirements without getting into the details.
The role of analytics in managing, improving and ultimately transforming supply chains cannot be understated. But what about the analytics themselves? FICO’s Zahir Balaporia and renowned author Tom Davenport use the term “The Analytics Supply Chain” to reflect that the actual analytics themselves parallel supply chains, with inherent challenges and problems if things “get stuck.” Rethinking analytics in these terms can not only improve supply chain performance, but also any other business problems you seek to solve.
This article targets:
· Steps in the analytics supply chain and the vital role of data and analytic models
· How your predictions, recommendations and insights need to rely on similar attributes to finished manufactured products;
· Key questions to ask yourself in determining where you need to fix your analytics supply chain.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) isn’t just about aligning supply and demand. Ultimately, businesses across all industries need to synchronize plans across all functions to strike the right balance between demand, resources and other constraints. Companies are realizing that their use of analytics to help improve decision making needs to evolve beyond just reporting to include machine learning and optimization.
Download our latest Q&A now with published author and supply chain expert Mike Watson, and learn how virtually any S&OP decision can benefit from advanced analytics and automation. You’ll get practical advice to help build a strawman, so you can move forward quickly – before your competitors!
Read this Executive Brief to know the Top 7 Questions to ask before deploying your Sales and Operations planning.
Quality 4.0 isn't really a story about technology. It's about how that technology improves culture, collaboration, competency and leadership.
The last decade has seen rapid advances in connectivity, mobility, analytics, scalability and data, creating what some call the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0. With the help of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturers have digitized operations, transforming efficiency, supply-chain performance and innovation. This revolution has even created entirely new business models.
This e-book gives manufacturers the tools to lead the Quality 4.0 transformation – a transformation that raises traditional manufacturing to the next level. It teaches readers to use advanced technology, analytics and IIoT to strengthen the manufacturing process and bring it forward into a powerful digital age.
Tools for extracting actionable insights from growing mounds of data are becoming smarter and easier to use.
Organizations are awash in data generated by customers, supply chain partners and numerous other humanand machine-based sources. With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) starting to churn out even more data, many enterprises are considering how to transform their growing stores of raw information into actionable insights.
Business intelligence (BI) and data analytics were once mostly limited to large enterprises, but 85 percent of small and midsize businesses have expressed interest in these solutions, according Gartner subsidiary Software Advice. Further, Accuray Research reports that the global business intelligence and analytics software market is poised to grow swiftly in the coming years to approximately $24 billion by 2020.
Published By: VMTurbo
Published Date: Apr 11, 2013
This whitepaper describes VMTurbo’s supply chain economy approach, which uniquely addresses these requirements. VMTurbo combines monitoring, analytics and actions to enable proactive virtualization management. VMTurbo’s Observe Advise Automate model delivers intelligent and holistic visibility, analytics and automation.