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Business Intelligence Success Story from MSS:

Production Bakery & Distribution Industry

Improving Sales Forecasting & Budget Approval Process

A regional production bakery and distribution company based in Arizona was growing rapidly and needed a system to generate accurate sales forecasts and assist the sales forecast process. Because this company deals with a perishable product, it was experiencing reduced operating margins due to product waste and the inability to anticipate product demand. The company also wanted to improve the efficiency of its budget approval process

Production Bakery & Distribution Industry: Challenges

Sales forecasting and inaccurate product mix forecasting
Reduced Operating Margin
Inefficient Budget Approval Process

Production Bakery & Distribution Industry: Solution

Implemented Cognos enterprise planning applications
Develop forecasting model to house the sales planning data used to support ongoing
analysis needsCreated a data entry template using the Cognos contributor tool that facilitates the entry of planned sales data
Developed the company's budget approval process
Implemented Cognos application security

Production Bakery & Distribution Industry: Results

Gross margin improved by 5%
Forecasting cycle time reduced by 50%

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