Business intelligence for manufacturing

Business Intelligence for

Manufacturing

Rajendra Babtiwale

e-Zest Solutions Ltd.

• Business Context

• Manufacturing organizations and BI

• Benefits to the organizations

• Implementation

– Challenges in implementation

– Ways ahead

• Q & A

Agenda

Business Context

BI will help you address following challenges:

• Pressure of Globalization

• Improvement initiatives have generated huge data

• Paralysis of Analysis

• Goldratt Statement in the book “Heystack Syndrome” – difference

between data and information

– Information is not the data required to answer a question

– Information is the answer to the question asked.

• “Fact gap” between data and usable information

• Percolation of relevant data at functional level is challenge

• Different IT systems used in various functions making it difficult to

integrate information

• Inadequate or unavailable information in relation with other important

related parameters of business

• Decision making is difficult as big picture is missing – Sub-optimized

view of data

• Stuck with non usable and rigid BI module of ERP

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• Reports take long time to generate almost making them unusable

• Stuck with standard reports and do not have flexibility

• Need help from IT function to generate desired reports

Static reports adversely impact decisions to

improve overall business performance

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In your organization

• Bird’s eye view – Are you satisfied with the current view you have over

your business?

• Availability of relevant information - Is it available at right locations?

Does it flow across organization?

• Integration of functional data pools – Is data across various data pools

being related and analyzed?

• Decision Making – Is it timely and effective?

• Reports – Are they generated fast enough & can ad-hoc reports be

generated?

• New data sources – Is it possible to integrate new data sources?

• Visibility – Is it better to improve business performance? Can you drill

down to view details?

• Agility – Do you have proactive environment?

• Customer satisfaction – Can you trace parameters & information

satisfying customers?

• Benchmarking – Can you compare, analyze & benchmark performance

of suppliers, distributors, channels, dealers and competitors etc?



Does your organization face any of these challenges

• If yes, then e-Zest – selected BI tool together can provide you the

solution

– To overcome the challenges expressed in the previous slides

– To reap maximum benefits of the Business Intelligence tool at all

levels of your organization

Help you to remain on top in the cut-throat

competition



• Customer relationships get better due to proactive

responses

• Easy to handle market dynamics

• Effective decisions on new products and time to market

• Optimized inventory costs

• Helps to improve overall operational systems like

planning, scheduling and procurement

• Helps to improve products and services by analyzing QA

data

• Effective decision making in selection of world-class

technologies

• Timely upstream reports generation



• Easy to customize or create ad-hoc reports

• Can isolate specific problems by comparing lateral

parameters

• Possible to analyze data from multiple systems

• Possible to integrate new data sources

• Better insight to improve operational and financial

performance

• Managers are better equipped to take critical decisions as

“Fact gap” is closed between data and usable information

• Lateral communication on the basis of data is better

• Accuracy of data gets improved because of the visibility

Helps to keep bottom-line on track



Components

– Alerts

– Inquiry – drill down helps to analyze information at detailed

level

– Analysis – data from multiple systems can be collated and

compared for better analysis

– Operational Dashboards – One picture speaks thousand

words – possible to personalize and generate graphical

snapshots

– Quick KPI – Real time monitoring of the business. Reports

not after the fact but upstream

– Flexible reporting – Export possible

– Remote access – People in top positions travel and need

access to information system remotely

– Report automation – Need not wait for help from IT function.

Easy to generate and share reports as no programming

background needed



Three phases of implementation

Phase 1 – Getting Started

Phase 2 – Deployment



Phase 3 – Training

• BI team from e-Zest will spend time with your IT personnel to

understand various IT systems being used in your organization

• Along with your IT personnel team will deploy selected BI tool

application in your organization or will give access to web

instance of the tool

• He/she will design entire structure for generating and displaying

reports

Phase 1 – Getting Started



• BI team will generate few or all reports as per your need

• Develop Mobile BI App using selected BI tool – Mobile app.

• Deploy BI Application on Cloud

Phase 2 – Deployment



Depending on the kind of contract

• Training will be imparted to your key personnel from your

organization

• e-Zest will provide expertise for on going review of reports

generated by your personnel and usage of selected BI tool

• Support & Maintenance: Assistance available by e-Mail, Phone

or in person

Phase 3 – Training



Our goal is to

implement BI tool

in your organization

successfully

and help you

reap maximum benefits of BI

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