Manufacturing BI Solution Requirements

Industry Vertical Solutions

Teradata - Teradata's Manufacturing Logical Data Model matches supply with demand and drives more efficient operations throughout the entire manufacturing organization.
SAS
BusinessObjects

Bottom Up BI Solutions

Microsoft PerformancePoint Server

Operational BI Vendors

Cognos - provides a suite of Performance Blueprints to help manufacturers quickly address planning and performance management processes. Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process, and policy models based on proven best practices in manufacturing operations, sales, marketing, and finance. Modules: Trade Promotions, Sales Promotions, Sales & Operation Planning.
Business Objects
SAS
Teradata

Point Solution Vendors

Purchasing

Informatica PowerAnalyzer - analyzes purchasing data to ensure that buyers are fully leveraging negotiated deals by automatically alerts buyers when they exceed spending thresholds that entitle the company to discounts.

CombineNet - an electronic expressive bidding tool that gives suppliers the power to change economic order quantities, product bundling, delivery routes and timing or other variables to optimize efficiency.

SAS 9 - promises "fit to task" intelligence, with total enterprise data focused to supporting one functional area of the business.

Relevant Business Wizard and Predictive Analytics

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