Operations

Overview

KPI and Cognos deliver software and services to maximize Operations efficiency in your organization:

Materials management: Manage your inventory investment at optimal levels

• Identify usage and coverage trends to reduce unnecessary carrying costs and inventory write-downs.

Procurement: Leverage your company's purchasing power

• Consolidate procurement activities, accurately compare and evaluate different suppliers, and monitor supplier performance.

Production: Gain visibility across all plants, lines, and shifts

• Analyze the source and impact of production problems, and identify trends in quality, efficiency, and throughput.

Model the use of plant capital resources with other functional areas

• Integrate production and distribution plans with finance, marketing, operations, and other data.

Benefits and Value

KPI and Cognos provide the most comprehensive suite of integrated performance management software and services.

The following metrics, reports, and plans deliver the insight needed by Operations to reduce costs, manage inventory, streamline processes, and increase profitability.

Reporting, analysis, and business intelligence

Meet the information needs of all users with flexible, user-friendly reports, dashboards, and online analysis on vital topics such as:

• Production lead times.
• Bill of materials costs.
• Production cost variances.
• Downtime analysis.
• Supplier fill rates.
• Customer satisfaction.

Learn more about Cognos reporting, analysis, and business intelligence.

Planning, forecasting, and consolidation

Use integrated planning, modeling, and budgeting software to build cross-divisional plans for:

• Production planning.
• Logistics planning.
• Bill of materials planning.
• Inventory planning.

Learn more about Cognos planning and consolidation software.

Scorecarding

Communicate priorities and key metrics across Operations to answer the key question: Are we making progress on the things that must be done?

Track metrics such as:

• Planned units.
• Days late.
• Customer backlog.
• Inventory costs and turns.
• On-time deliveries.

Learn more about Cognos scorecarding software.