QlikView can provide the means to access and analyze information, and thereby better manage inventory and costs. Using QlikView, your able to adjust for differences between forecasted and actual inventory within one to four-week horizons – a major “pain point” within the industry. The QlikView reporting enables the monitoring of daily demand signals and improved near–term forecasting by more than 50%. This in turn has helped to stabilize production schedules, reduce safety stock, improve service levels and decrease costs.
With QlikView, you can:
- Inventory Projections, which enables the company to now quickly compare differences between a current and prior month’s forecast. Schedule Compliance reporting, tracking how well manufacturing plants meet commitments to produce as forecasted.
- Warehouse and Transportation Capacity, to better align logistics with forecasted sales. By capturing a snapshot of inventory in warehouses and in transit—including day, location, inbound, outbound and drop times—the company reduces transportation costs and better matches warehouse staffing levels with need.
- Risk management scenarios, such as how would production and/or freight operations shift in event of a workforce interruption or catastrophe involving one of its plants.
- New Sales Forecasting Analysis, which reduces report generation times, standardizes reports for the company’s sales and operations meetings, and forecasts error analyses during monthly brand meetings.
QlikView is revolutionizing business intelligence with the fast and powerful visualization capabilities that you've always wanted. More importantly, QlikView is a simple, self service tool designed specifically to enable business users. In a matter of hours or days, QlikView puts information at your fingertips and frees you to make quick decisions, giving you the intelligence you need to act – faster.
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