Data is everywhere, but what sets Scout customers apart is that they know what to do with it. Through Scout
Reports, you can unlock the ability to understand, inform, and support your recommendations to the
business with defensible data and produce a hard-hitting impact to the bottom line. And you’ll help your
team become more data-aware in the process.
Product Deep Dive: Getting the Most out of Scout Reports
1. A SCOUT DEEP DIVE
#scoutspark
Getting the Most out of Scout
Reports
SimoneJanssen
CustomerSuccessManager
ScoutRFP
Dr.ElizabethKnapp
SeniorAnalystII
Biogen
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Agenda
Introduction1
Why We’re All Here- Reporting is a Priority2
The Essentials of Reporting- Biogen3
Demo: Scout Reports4
Closing Thought: Reports Cause Conversation and Drive Change5
Q & A6
3. “The winners in the digital age
will be the companies that can extract the
most value from their data.”
Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer at Box
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Reporting: Unlock the Ability to Educate
Establish Better Control & Drive
Improvement
Identify Opportunities & Drive
Value
Work Faster, Stay Agile & Give
the Business a New
Competitive Edge
Enable Better & Faster
Decision Making
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Reporting: Gaining Visibility into Critical Dynamics
• Savings and spend
• Managing the sourcing group & evaluating
performance
• Quality control/analysis
• Managing and evaluating current and future
suppliers
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Reports Drive Decision Making and Profitability
“Data is a driver for improved
decision-making and profitability.”
– Journal of Business Logistics, 2013
10. To buildan acumenfor analytics,
teach your organizationwhy they
should want a report
It starts with the first one
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Primary Areas of Understandingand Enrichment
Cost Savings/Targets Customer SatisfactionOperational Efficiency
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Continually Examine the Usefulness of a Report
Creating
ExaminingSharing
Analyze the results –
What do they mean?
Compare to real observation
or feedback
Sometimes KPIs need to be shifted
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Report Creation
• Do I have the proper fields?
• Is the data accurate, complete, and consistent?
• What do the results mean?
• How does the data compare to real observation?
• What is still unknown?
Report Examination
15. “How many Sourcing
Events am I running?”
“What are my Recognized
and Projected Savings?”
“What are my Savings per
Project?”
“Do I need to hire more
Sourcing Managers?”
“What are my savings per
region?”
“Which Suppliers have I
worked with before?”
“How many projects does each
Sourcing Manager own?”
“What are my Project
Statuses?”
“What projects are bringing
in the most savings?”
“How long are
my events?”
“What types of
projects am I working
on?”
“What are my upcoming
milestones?”
“Can I increase the
efficiency of my events
timelines?”“What are my Supplier
Review Trends?”
Get Real Insights, Fast– With Scout.
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Scout Reporting:
Understand, inform and support sourcing recommendations with
defensible data
More Visibility
Fast, Flexible Insight
Rich customizable reports, charts, and pivot tables let
you dive into the data (and leave messy imports and
merges behind)
Integrations Connect Data
Align sourcing data with other data sources across
the enterprise with pre-built Tableau and Power BI
connectors
See across projects, events, suppliers, and savings to
see what's working (and what's not)
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Value From Reports
• Achieving a $50M savings goal
• Executive reporting that used to take 3 days to put
together are now assembled in minutes
• Faster, easier, and better at determining the best suppliers
per RFX based on prior engagements
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Reports Cause Conversation and Drive
If everything is green, you’re looking at the wrong
stuff - Reports will help you find the areas of
improvement.
Are your KPIs too green?
Important to continually examine the usefulness of a report and whether it indicates what is intended:
i. Analyze the results and what they mean
ii. Compare to real observation or feedback
iii. Sometimes KPIs need to be shifted—but this is difficult; people get accustomed [so how do you do it?]