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Part 2 : Retailers – Are you getting maximum out of your investments in Business intelligence solutions ? --Solution Components
ravi vadaga 
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Company: Capgemeni
Posted on Oct. 13, 2009 10:18 AM in Analytics, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, Retail, Governance, Risk and Compliance, SAP Crystal Reports, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, BI Accelerator, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
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Hi  Guys ,

 

This is a continuation of the previous blog  titled “Retailers – are you getting maximum out of your investments in Business intelligence solutions ? “ .  In this blog I have outlined the potential  components for future blogs/ discussion – not necessarily in any order.

 

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TopicDiscussion Cues
1Retail Supply Chain Explained - ComponentsRetail Chain Formats ,Components of Retail Supply chain
2KPI's for different Components of Supply ChainOperational level KPI's  , CXO-2,CXO-1 and CXO level KPI's ,SAP delivered standard KPI's , Whitespaces
3Appropriate Dashboards /presentation Layer for the KPI's Discussion on Xcelsius ,Web intelligence , Bex etc , Comparison of these with other non SAP (best of breed ) tools like Cognos etc
4Data sources for these KPI's Appropriate SAP ERP components . Non SAP data sources -peripheral systems key to retail
5EDW Architecture -for Retail EDW architecture ,Best practices , Consolidation of BI systems
6Performance Optimization of a Retail EDWPerformance Optimization techniques 
7Advance Analytics - Appropriate Models for retail -Business benefits Market basket analysis? Mark up/down optimization, price & promotion modeling, store clustering & price zone definition etc
8Advance Analytics -technology enablersSAP technology enablers ,Comparison with other tools like SAS etc ,White spaces in the SAP tools
9Budgeting ,Planning and forecasting -in retailUse of BPC vs. F&R vs. APO -DP - appropriateness as right tool  for Retail Budgeting and Forecasting needs
10Impact of new IT paradigms on Retail analyticsOn Demand reporting , Analytics , Reporting As A Service  (RAAS) , Embedded Analytics - their Utility in retail industry etc

This list by no means is perfect or complete -Please feel free to suggest additions  & deletions  .  

While doing  some legwork for two  of my retail clients – I came across few ideas on the same topic from other folks in SDN in   and outside forums  - will appropriately  include them .

ravi vadaga   Is a SME for www.capgemeni.com with focus on EPM & SCM areas.

Comment on this articleplease add if i have missed a major Component in this list for Analytics @Retail.
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  • This is still part 1
    2009-10-21 09:12:38 David Fletcher Business Card [Reply]

    All you did is reformat your first blog here and call it part two.
    You have a great topic and points of discussion/questions, its unfortunate you still have not provided any value.
    Do you even have a clue what the answers to your questions are?


    I hate to be mean, I’m just so tired of the uninformed presenting themselves as experts. If you cannot provide value, then please, go home and stay ther!

    • This is still part 1
      2009-10-21 22:07:37 ravi vadaga Business Card [Reply]

      David Fletcher - i will write my blog at my own pace and in my own style .


      If you have anything constructive too add -please do .

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