The document discusses how the food and beverage industry faces many pressures, including declining agricultural land, rising costs, and changing customer preferences. It explains how a VITU partner has integrated business intelligence into its Dynamics AX software to help food and beverage companies monitor their business and identify issues related to markets, customers, and operations. Specific metrics and dashboards are presented that the business intelligence capability provides for inventory, safety, aging, supply, and order fill rates.

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Business Intelligence for the
Food and Beverage Industry

2. The Food & Beverage
Industry is now serving a
more frugal, more educated,
more health conscious, more
aware and more demanding
customer than ever before.

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Pressures faced by
Food & Beverage Industry:
Declining agricultural land
Government subsidies
Food Safety
Government regulation
Larger global supply chains
Rising commodity prices
Preference changes
Increased competition
Just to name a few....

4. Food and Beverage
companies of all kinds need more
than applications to deal with all of
these issues.
<VITU Partner> has integrated
Business Intelligence into the
Dynamics AX to allow it’s clients a
better way to monitor all aspects
of their business.

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This powerful
integrated capability allows
<VITU Partner> clients to ability
rapidly identify and respond to:
With a virtually unlimited number of
user defined dashboards!
Market changes
Customer swings
Operational issues

6. With an ever
growing ocean of
“Big Data” the native Business
Intelligence capability will allow you
to better manage your business.
<VITU Partner> is delivering a more
intelligent application. More intelligent
applications lead to more intelligent
users – and more intelligent users
lead to better run businesses!

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<VITU Partner> BI
for Food and
Beverage:
Inventory Turns
Safety Time Warning
Average Age of Inventory
Shelf Life Warning
Inventory Weeks of Supply
Order Fill Rate

8. Key Metric Dashboard

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Example Scorecard
Example
Scorecard
Example
Scorecard
Expanded

10. Safety Time Warning

11. Inventory Aging and Supply
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12. Shelf Life Warning

13. Inventory Turns
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14. Order Fill Rate
Sales and Performance
Dashboard
Sales and Performance
Dashboard
Focused on Company

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Order Fill Rate
Sales and Performance
Dashboard
2nd view
Order Fill Rate by Company, Brand, Family and SKU

16. Order Fill Rate
Sales and Performance
Dashboard
Sales Report Sales Heat Map

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