Business Intelligence (BI) solutions can help manufacturing business users to analyse cost factors and make appropriate decisions for acquisition of raw material and sold goods.

1. Business Intelligence for
Manufacturing
Rajendra Babtiwale
e-Zest Solutions Ltd.

2. Agenda
• Business Context
• Manufacturing organizations and BI
• Benefits to the organizations
• Implementation
– Challenges in implementation
– Ways ahead
• Q & A

3. Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
BI will help you address following challenges:
• Pressure of Globalization
• Improvement initiatives have generated huge data
• Paralysis of Analysis
• Goldratt Statement in the book “Heystack Syndrome” – difference
between data and information
– Information is not the data required to answer a question
– Information is the answer to the question asked.
• “Fact gap” between data and usable information
• Percolation of relevant data at functional level is challenge
• Different IT systems used in various functions making it difficult to
integrate information
• Inadequate or unavailable information in relation with other important
related parameters of business
• Decision making is difficult as big picture is missing – Sub-optimized
view of data
• Stuck with non usable and rigid BI module of ERP

4. Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
• Reports take long time to generate almost making them unusable
• Stuck with standard reports and do not have flexibility
• Need help from IT function to generate desired reports
Static reports adversely impact decisions to
improve overall business performance

5. Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
In your organization
Business Context
• Bird’s eye view – Are you satisfied with the current view you have over
your business?
• Availability of relevant information - Is it available at right locations?
Does it flow across organization?
• Integration of functional data pools – Is data across various data pools
being related and analyzed?
• Decision Making – Is it timely and effective?
• Reports – Are they generated fast enough & can ad-hoc reports be
generated?
• New data sources – Is it possible to integrate new data sources?
• Visibility – Is it better to improve business performance? Can you drill
down to view details?
• Agility – Do you have proactive environment?
• Customer satisfaction – Can you trace parameters & information
satisfying customers?
• Benchmarking – Can you compare, analyze & benchmark performance
of suppliers, distributors, channels, dealers and competitors etc?

6. Does your organization face any of these challenges
• If yes, then e-Zest – selected BI tool together can provide you the
solution
– To overcome the challenges expressed in the previous slides
– To reap maximum benefits of the Business Intelligence tool at all
levels of your organization
Help you to remain on top in the cut-throat
competition
Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation

7. Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
• Customer relationships get better due to proactive
responses
• Easy to handle market dynamics
• Effective decisions on new products and time to market
• Optimized inventory costs
• Helps to improve overall operational systems like
planning, scheduling and procurement
• Helps to improve products and services by analyzing QA
data
• Effective decision making in selection of world-class
technologies
• Timely upstream reports generation

8. Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
• Easy to customize or create ad-hoc reports
• Can isolate specific problems by comparing lateral
parameters
• Possible to analyze data from multiple systems
• Possible to integrate new data sources
• Better insight to improve operational and financial
performance
• Managers are better equipped to take critical decisions as
“Fact gap” is closed between data and usable information
• Lateral communication on the basis of data is better
• Accuracy of data gets improved because of the visibility
Helps to keep bottom-line on track

9. Business Context
Components
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
– Alerts
– Inquiry – drill down helps to analyze information at detailed
level
– Analysis – data from multiple systems can be collated and
compared for better analysis
– Operational Dashboards – One picture speaks thousand
words – possible to personalize and generate graphical
snapshots
– Quick KPI – Real time monitoring of the business. Reports
not after the fact but upstream
– Flexible reporting – Export possible
– Remote access – People in top positions travel and need
access to information system remotely
– Report automation – Need not wait for help from IT function.
Easy to generate and share reports as no programming
background needed

10. Three phases of implementation
Phase 1 – Getting Started
Phase 2 – Deployment
Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation
Phase 3 – Training

11. • BI team from e-Zest will spend time with your IT personnel to
understand various IT systems being used in your organization
• Along with your IT personnel team will deploy selected BI tool
application in your organization or will give access to web
instance of the tool
• He/she will design entire structure for generating and displaying
reports
Phase 1 – Getting Started
Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation

12. Manufacturing &
BI
Phase 2 – Deployment
Business Context
• BI team will generate few or all reports as per your need
• Develop Mobile BI App using selected BI tool – Mobile app.
• Deploy BI Application on Cloud
Benefits Implementation

13. Depending on the kind of contract
• Training will be imparted to your key personnel from your
organization
• e-Zest will provide expertise for on going review of reports
generated by your personnel and usage of selected BI tool
• Support & Maintenance: Assistance available by e-Mail, Phone
or in person
Phase 3 – Training
Business Context
Manufacturing &
BI
Benefits Implementation

14. Our goal is to
implement BI tool
in your organization
successfully
and help you
reap maximum benefits of BI

15. e-Zest Solutions Ltd.
Detroit | California | London | Germany | South Africa
Pune | Mumbai | Bangalore
e-mail : info@e-zest.net | Website : www.e-zest.net
Toll Free: +1 (888) 778-9977
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