3. ?
Most time spent gathering
disparate data
•Ga t h e r i n g
•Cl e a n i n g
• I n t e g r a t i n g
•J u s t i f y i n g
Inconsistent reports lead
to questionable decisions ?
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Submit Reports
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AC Nielsen/IRI/Spectra/
TD Links/RSI/Mkt 6, etc.
Costco/Sam’s/
Kroger/Publix
Wal-Mart, Shiloh
Retail Link, EDI/AS2
Home Depot
Shipments
Other POS data
EDI/FF/txt/Access, etc
Publix/Meijer
CVS
Target/Giant Eagle
4. Consistenc
y
• Easy Access to
Information
• Improved
Productivity
Productive Meetings
Streamline Data
Gathering
POSmart
Synchronize, Integrate
& Validate POS
Wal-Mart/Shiloh
EDI /AS2/Retail Link
Kroger/Publix
EDI, AS2
Target/POL/IR
Promo/Forecasts
Nielsen/Spectra/RSI
Shipping
Sam’s/Costco
Walgreens
IRI/Mkt6/NPD
CVS/RiteAid
Home Depot, Lowes
5. Information
Time
R I S K
Earliest Point when
an Accurate Decision
can be made
10 Days
Amount of Information
Needed to make an
accurate decision
6. Information
Increased
Employee
Productivity
Time
LOW
RISK
Additional Information
Available when integrated
Amount of information currently
available to make a decision
1 Day
Earliest Point when
an Accurate Decision
can be made is now 1 day
Notes de l'éditeur
In the consumer goods industry, you get data from so many different sources. Each source produces it’s own reports. Analysts spend an average of 70% of their time gathering and pulling together data. When there are discrepancies in the data, Analysts spend more time trying to figure out where the numbers came from. This is a very tedious task that keeps analysts from actually “Analyzing the data.”
Data from different sources often leads to a lack of consistency in reports. Peoples numbers don’t match and there is a lack of confidence in the data. Analysts spend countless hours trying to manage data discrepancies.
Understand the value of time to your company. The longer it takes for people to get answers to questions, the greater the risk involved in losing a client, making the wrong decision, providing the wrong information, compensating the wrong sales rep, negotiating the wrong discount from a vendor, etc. all cost the company money.
If decision makers have to make decisions at an earlier point than when they receive all the accurate information, they are making hunch based decisions and increasing their chances of making a poor decision. There is risk involved.
Providing information to users faster will not only improve the accuracy of their decision, but will increase employee productivity. Time once spent gathering information will now be spent providing MORE information to decision makers. Analysts can actually analyze information rather than spend time gathering it. There will be more information available than ever before and users will have the ability to discover trends and information never before available to them.