Hi Guys ,
This is a continuation of the previous blog titled “Retailers – are you getting maximum out of your investments in Business intelligence solutions ? “ . In this blog I have outlined the potential components for future blogs/ discussion – not necessarily in any order.
S.no | Topic | Discussion Cues |
| 1 | Retail Supply Chain Explained - Components | Retail Chain Formats ,Components of Retail Supply chain |
| 2 | KPI's for different Components of Supply Chain | Operational level KPI's , CXO-2,CXO-1 and CXO level KPI's ,SAP delivered standard KPI's , Whitespaces |
| 3 | Appropriate Dashboards /presentation Layer for the KPI's | Discussion on Xcelsius ,Web intelligence , Bex etc , Comparison of these with other non SAP (best of breed ) tools like Cognos etc |
| 4 | Data sources for these KPI's | Appropriate SAP ERP components . Non SAP data sources -peripheral systems key to retail |
| 5 | EDW Architecture -for Retail | EDW architecture ,Best practices , Consolidation of BI systems |
| 6 | Performance Optimization of a Retail EDW | Performance Optimization techniques |
| 7 | Advance Analytics - Appropriate Models for retail -Business benefits | Market basket analysis? Mark up/down optimization, price & promotion modeling, store clustering & price zone definition etc |
| 8 | Advance Analytics -technology enablers | SAP technology enablers ,Comparison with other tools like SAS etc ,White spaces in the SAP tools |
| 9 | Budgeting ,Planning and forecasting -in retail | Use of BPC vs. F&R vs. APO -DP - appropriateness as right tool for Retail Budgeting and Forecasting needs |
| 10 | Impact of new IT paradigms on Retail analytics | On Demand reporting , Analytics , Reporting As A Service (RAAS) , Embedded Analytics - their Utility in retail industry etc |
This list by no means is perfect or complete -Please feel free to suggest additions & deletions .
While doing some legwork for two of my retail clients – I came across few ideas on the same topic from other folks in SDN in and outside forums - will appropriately include them .
