Executive Information System

Apprise Distribution’s executive information system provides dynamic, drill-down access into standard inquiries and tools to get at the root cause of business performance. Optional business intelligence tools, powered by Cognos, leverage pre-designed and customizable three-dimensional data cubes to enable you to flexibly mine your data and get answers to the questions that are most critical to your business.

Key benefits include

Efficient real-time access to critical business information

• Fully integrated information systems give visibility into business performance across all operations and enable you to see performance history and trends in real-time.
• Drill-down capabilities provide easy access to summary or detailed information, including original documents, to get to the root cause of business performance results.
• Optional pre-designed data cubes deliver powerful on-demand information about common business performance metrics. Easily manipulate your data view and apply data filters to identify trends, and quickly take action to maximize business performance.

Deep management insight and control,

• Gain deep insights into customer and product profitability and make optimal decisions regarding customer segments and product lines by leveraging customer and product-level analysis.
• Utilize flexible analysis tools to understand sales performance by sales representative, customer, and product, and to gain visibility into product and customer sales volumes, revenues, and profitability in order to drive sales performance improvements.
• Optimize supplier selection through a deeper comprehension of supplier delivery performance and costs.
• Improve control over business results through real-time, time-based ratio and cash flow analysis.

Flexibility to get to the root cause of business performance

• Comprehensive on-line financial inquiries give you access to more timely information, including on-demand access to balance sheet and income statement results.
• Side-by-side performance comparisons help you identify business trends and drivers and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Standard data-cubes provide quick and flexible access to goals versus results, sales, bookings, inventory, purchasing, warehousing, and accounts receivable performance.
• Customizable data cubes enable you to create and view reports in the way that is most meaningful to your business.

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