Supply Chain Decisions - Make Sure You Understand the Dollars and ...

by Jim Brown ... where the need for supply chain cost modeling and optimization techniques come in ... This changes the decision-making from a purely gut-feel or experience-driven ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/07/research_notes/MI_SC_XJB_07_21_03_1.asp - 11k Summary: Companies make decisions about their supply chains every day. But do they really understand the impact of their decisions on the P&L, Balance Sheet, and key operational metrics? Do they have the tools to available to consider a broad set of possible options and their inherent trade-offs?

Supply Chain Decisions - Make Sure You Understand the Dollars and ...

by Jim Brown ... What tools and techniques are available for business analysts and executives ... a standardized infrastructure to enable systematic and fact-based decision-making. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/07/research_notes/MI_SC_XJB_07_22_03_1.asp - 12k Summary: High-level strategic decisions often have multiple, cascading cost impacts. The reaction of the costs to changes in the supply chain system is not predictable in a simple relationship that is based on current standard costs, because strategic changes often involve step changes in costs that alter the ba

Contemporary Business Intelligence and Its Main Components

by TEC Analysts ... which is software designed to support groups in unstructured decision-making by supporting brainstorming, conflict resolution, voting, and other techniques. ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2007/11/research_notes/TU_BI_TA_11_19_07_1.asp - 21k Summary: Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process by allowing a company to manipulate corporate data for decision-making. But what exactly are the primary components of BI?

A Possible Remedy for Non-responsive Supply Chains

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... days, manufacturers seeking a competitive edge want tools and techniques that enable ... By having the right means at the operational decision-making time, an ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2008/03/research_notes/NA_SC_PJ_03_17_08_1.asp - 14k Summary: Because the supply chains of most manufacturers have become complex, global networks, managing these systems requires enterprise applications that enable collaboration, visibility, demand-sensing, and quick response to unplanned and unexpected events. But from where will such solutions come?

Contemporary Business Intelligence Tools

by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic ... which is software designed to support groups in unstructured decision-making by supporting brainstorming, conflict resolution, voting, and other techniques. ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/06/research_notes/TU_BI_XOT_06_28_05_1.asp - 22k Summary: Tools under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella combine to convert data into information, and information into decisions for action. Dashboards and scorecards are two such tools. Though often confused, they have functional difference, especially in modern BI suites.

Business Intelligence Status Report

by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic ... analytics is data mining uses pattern recognition, statistical, and mathematical techniques on large amounts of data to support decision-making by forecasting ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/06/research_notes/TU_BI_XOT_06_27_05_1.asp - 28k Summary: Spurred by government mandates for more business transparency, business intelligence has emerged to extract information from ERP systems. How has BI emerged? What does the terminology surrounding it mean, and what is its current state of affairs?

Using Predictive Analytics within Business Intelligence: A Primer

by TEC Analysts ... a forward-looking approach in decision making by using the ... create regression models, and build decision trees to ... the use of these techniques within performance ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2006/06/research_notes/TU_BI_TA_06_15_06_1.asp - 17k Summary: What are predictive analytics, and how are they used within business intelligence applications and for business performance management?

Predictive Analytics; the Future of Business Intelligence

by Mukhles Zaman ... Common data mining techniques include artificial neural networks, decision trees, genetic ... it is a latecomer to BI, SAS started making tools for ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/12/research_notes/TU_BI_XMZ_12_24_05_1.asp - 27k Summary: Business intelligence (BI) is evolving as it grows in popularity. Within BI, there is a shift from traditional analytics to predictive analytics, and predictive analytics is emerging as a distinct new software sector.

What if Companies Could Use Science to Align Prices to Market and ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... necessities, as firms seek to optimize business processes and decision making. ... innovative companies are marrying sophisticated analytical techniques with their ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/CRM/2007/06/research_notes/VN_CR_PJ_06_06_07_1.asp - 12k Summary: Zilliant, a data-driven, price management software provider, aims to enable business-to-business companies to optimize revenue and margins through decision support and automation software that delivers more effective discount guidelines, in-depth price analytics, intelligent deal management, and successf

How One Vendor Parlays Price Variation into Profit Improvement ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... In other words, improving deal-level sales decision making should also considerably increase ... terms is too complex for an analysis based on manual techniques. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/CRM/2007/06/research_notes/VN_CR_PJ_06_08_07_1.asp - 19k Summary: Rather than sticking to such outdated and speculative pricing practices as