Apparel

Overview

Apparel and footwear companies use Cognos to:

Manage new product development and introduction cycle

Simplify the integration of key activities, including project management, document management, and product design.
Integrate the entire new style development and introduction cycle, from initial idea to sell-through.

Improve operational performance

Improve sales and marketing performance

Handle multiple sales channels in several markets
Plan, monitor and review sales campaigns.
Deliver timely, accurate forecasts with driver-based modeling.
Monitor national, regional, territory, and style performance using dashboards and scorecards.

Reporting, analysis, and business intelligence
Cognos offers the most comprehensive business intelligence and reporting coverage in the industry.

Identify which processes and operations generate unfavorable variances and why.
Identify under-performing products and product lines.
Reassess and optimize product mix for a specific customer.
Report on performance by division, sales manager, and sales person.
Automatically send email alerts to managers when a pre-determined business situation or unusual event occurs.
Share information with key partners and suppliers through a BI extranet.

Scorecarding
Track your key corporate performance indicators from your desktop.

Monitor supply chain performance in terms of efficiency, utilization, quality, cost, and throughput.
Create and monitor key performance indicators, such as shipment performance, supply chain cycle time, inventory, quality, cost-to-serve, and supplier responsiveness.
Monitor new style development with regards to speed, timeliness, cost, and design team performance.
Create key performance indicators for performance of a specific style, style group, or division.
Top 10 Customers
Salesman performance - Season to Season
Customer buying trends
Style performance reporting
Monitor sales for a particular customer, region, or division.
Track financial goals in terms of gross sales, gross margin, or unit volume.

Learn more about Cognos scorecarding software.

Planning, forecasting, and consolidation
Cognos planning and consolidation software improves performance across your company.

Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems.
Enable driver-based planning to streamline and focus efforts around increased throughput, changes in supply, or customer demands.

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