Getting collated information from your distributors to the right decision makers in a timely manner can be a challenge.
Among the obstacles are:
- Some departments require simplified actionable representation of data or tools that will allow them to analyse and identify trends (operational vs. strategic use of data).
- Collated data must be tracked against targets. Typically, cross referencing of collated data with additional information ends up being manually handled.
- Field agents may face problems accessing the internet to obtain information due to intermittent internet connection.
- Data visualisation and reporting must be available for the different types of data sets that a distribution network would generate such as sales, returns, inventory, sales force management (planned, actual and effective calls), service levels to retailers (on time, in full) etc. Creating all these different dashboards and reports for different departments can be a time consuming affair.
- Different reporting and visualisation components must ensure that users can only access information that is relevant to them across the different components. If manufacturers implement a different reporting and dashboard engine, duplication of users and user privilege is required across the different systems. Furthermore, settings such as retailer and product hierarchies also end up being duplicated.
LUCIA BI visualisation and reporting
LUCIA BI solves the concerns surrounding the reporting and visualisation by providing the following components that share common Meta.
Dashboards and scorecards
- Daily performance tracking
- Compare sales performance over two periods
- Track performance against targets
- Export tables to spreadsheets
- Keep a watch list of your key products
Reports
- Auto-schedule emailing of reports
- Pre-defined standard reports for most common cases
- Web or Excel-based reports
Analysis
- Web-based pivot table to allow information rationalization
- Drag-and-drop view creation
- User-defined calculations
- One-click sorting and filtering
- Top/bottom calculations
and more...
