IBM Planning Analytics category

Jabil is building reports with IBM Business Analytics Portfolio

3 min read - Jabil isn’t just a manufacturer, they are experts on global supply chain, logistics, automation, product design and engineering solutions. They are also interested and involved in the holistic application of emerging technologies like additive manufacturing, autonomous technologies, and artificial intelligence. They are a technologically motivated enterprise, so it’s no surprise that they would apply this forward-thinking view to their finance reporting as well. Jabil is a sizable operation with over 260,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries. The world's…

Revolutionizing the consumer goods industry with integrated business planning

5 min read - The world of business demands the right decisions to succeed. For Al Rabie—a prominent juice manufacturing company in the Middle East—their reality was no different. However, their manual planning and budgeting process in spreadsheets posed several challenges, including lack of control, delayed data, poor execution, and the need for continuous follow-up with IT for actual data. They faced obstacles such as a prolonged budget process, manual forecasting, and no product profitability. To address these challenges, Al Rabie partnered with 1Direction…

Approaches to long-term planning with IBM Planning Analytics

3 min read - In our collective rush to react to ever-changing marketplace dynamics and shifts in the economy, it’s easy to focus on short-term plans, to the neglect of long-term planning. Today’s leaders need to have several plans – short-term, medium-term, and long-term. Different plans for different needs How do these plans differ? A short-term plan is designed to show granular details for a limited time frame. This is often updated monthly, although we have some clients updating their plans on a weekly…

Building a culture of data-driven decisions and insights with IBM Business Analytics

3 min read - Organizations are managing and analyzing large datasets every day, but many still need the right tools to generate data-driven insights. Even more, organizations need the ability to bring data insights to the right users to make faster, more effective business decisions amid unpredictable market changes. Meeting business goals with data insights By building on our existing portfolio of business intelligence (BI) and planning analysis solutions, our clients are transcending manual and siloed analysis processes to optimize financial targets, sales goals,…

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