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You’ve got all the information – but you cannot access it. How GO Partners solved a critical business issue and enabled a manufacturer to more accurately track key business metrics.
In today’s challenging business environment, it’s more important than ever to listen to your customers. Many large-scale manufacturers aggressively track product sales data and accounting performance metrics to gain a better understanding of what their customers want, plan effective business strategy and improve performance in the market. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), frequently touted as the cure-all for business management challenges, falls far short of enabling most companies to achieve this goal.
A respected premium-brand consumer products manufacturer had just made a significant investment of time and money to install an ERP, only to discover that they could not readily access top-line information crucial to understanding where their business was going. GO Partners brought its extensive experience in information technology and business strategy development to design a solution.
First, we interviewed senior managers to identify the key performance indicators vital to their success. Next, GO Partners designed “dashboard reports” that gave the client’s management team daily key metrics at a glance. In order to speed up the process of investigating the sources of “red flag” behaviors in the data, such as a troubling increase in accounts receivable or a sudden spike in inventory, GO Partners developed detailed “drill-down reports” that reviewed supporting information and metrics.
The result? Critical business information is available at the start of each business day, and the time required to make better-informed business decisions is significantly shorter.
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