Zemeter Business Analyst (BA)

Perhaps one of the most fundamental things technology can do to provide solid decision support is to pull all of your supply chain performance information into one place. Allow people throughout your supply chain to slice and dice key shipment, demand, production, and inventory information. Develop key metrics and report on these easily.
Working with shipment and order data from your ERP transaction system, Zemeter's Business Analyst will allow you to analyze historical patterns to identify sources of demand variability, identify customers that may be candidates for collaboration, and put in place sound metrics for order fulfillment.

Often completed within 30 days, this tool has resulted in clear benefits to the business, including:

The ability to identify specific areas of demand variability and customer/ product combinations with low customer service should provide opportunities to reduce late shipments by 20%.

The implementation of a metric to measure order fulfillment provides a basis for a continuous improvement process for customer service.

If not already known, a quantitative view of the most important customers and product lines can focus business initiatives appropriately for the first time.
Most importantly, though, is the fact that you have provided a base upon which you can build: Identify priorities for supply chain improvement as your organization begins to make sense of the mountains of information.