Operate Leaner, Smarter and More Profitably
Inside Info’s business intelligence solutions enable manufacturers to gain real-time visibility across the entire manufacturing value chain. The difference is that teams have the ability to understand performance at a transactional, high level or anywhere in-between in one consolidated dashboard pulling data from multiple and many systems, to improve business agility.
Inside Info can help manufacturing companies:
- Identify and solve problems proactively in your supply chain, from supplier deliveries, production schedules to warehousing that keep operations from flowing smoothly.
- Determine true product costs and know margins with analysis of every aspect, enabling you to improve margins or offer discounts to key customers.
- Get the best pricing and highest service levels from and to your suppliers with comparative performance analysis
- Empower those in production for real performance improvement. QlikView is easy to use. Plant managers can get a dashboard view of performance metrics to manage down to transactional level.
- Streamline compliance and financial analysis with drill-down detail to documentation.
- Get “one version of the truth,” synthesizing information from multiple sources. Whether data comes from your ERP applications, 3rd party systems, spreadsheets, EDI, or RFID chips, you can get the complete and graphic picture of any and all aspects of your chain.
Inside Info helps manufacturing companies in a matter of weeks to provide a consolidated view of performance in one on-demand dashboard bringing together internal and external data sources to deliver detailed analysis of inventory, sales, financials, customers and supply chain against budget. Some of the areas where we can help include:
- A one-screen view of all the facts: Ensuring cross functional visibility, integrating customer and business data so you have a clear view of sales, inventory, service levels, customers, financial and other operational performance.
- Easy monitoring of Service Levels: Monitoring and analysing outbound service levels such as Delivery-In-Full-On-Time (DIFOT) by product, customer, location and order can lend amazing insight into service levels, operational issues and dynamics.
- Interactive analysis of inventory: See the stock you are carrying, analyse inventory for vendor, material, warehouse, region, and other perspectives.
- Proactive Demand Planning: Determine whether your stock levels and fluctuations let you meet customer demand, especially if you have long lead times for stock replenishment. Understand demand, material movement, forecasting and stock valuation.
- Procurement Analysis: Analyse vendor performance, demand and purchasing power.
- Production Analysis: Have a granular view of production coupled with other financial and business data to understand impact company-wide.
- 360% view of customer behaviour– You can understand customer behavior and buying patterns and how this drives cost, efficiency and resource utilisation.
- Understand warehouse efficiency- Understand your picking and packing rates and be able to tie customer service issues back to activities.
- Near real-time visibility into operations: instead of out-of-date reports. On-demand self-serve analysis of data, often replacing hundreds of OLAP based reports and empowering business users to perform their own analysis reducing IT support by up to 90%. Users report 54% less time accessing information and 51% less time analysing it. (IDC).
Inside Info works with a range of industrial, consumer goods and mill product manufacturers designing and delivering business intelligence solutions. We help manufacturing companies in a matter of weeks to provide a consolidated view of performance in one on-demand dashboard bringing together internal and external data sources to deliver detailed analysis of inventory, sales, financials, customers and supply chain against budget. Globally there are over 2,000 manufacturing companies using QlikView.
Global packaging leader Amcor initiated the ‘Value Plus’ project to build sales and marketing excellence company-wide. Inside Info was chosen as Amcor’s BI partner to deliver interactive dashboards showing plant, customer and product level profitability and supply chain analysis across the business using QlikView on top of SAP BW. The solution was rolled out to over 500 employees in 25 works days allocating costs back to invoice line and ship to level for over 1 million SKU’s. IT analysts Gartner selected Amcor as the only Australian finalist in the 2009 BI Excellence Awards for this project, estimating an increase in Amcor’s gross profit margin by 1% in the first year alone.
Bianco is a leading supplier of structural steel, reinforcing, building hire, construction equipment, tools and services to the building, construction, civil, Government and mining industries. Bianco automates analysis sales, margin, dispatch, customer trends and impacts across its business at the click of a button. With Inside Info’s Inside Lawson Dashboard sales, operations and management teams now have granular analysis of sales and logistics, delivered in just 30 days. As a result improving IT staff productivity, saving at least 500 hours each year.
