Compac Corporation, a leading manufacturer of vapor retarder facings and pressure sensitive adhesive tapes for the construction, industrial, automotive, and electronics industries, and a MAC-PAC user since 1994, is in the process of implementing a new sales analysis application based on the Vizion Business Intelligence (Vizion BI) solution for MAC-PAC XE. The solution will be delivered jointly by TDCI solution partner, Vizion Solutions, and TDCI.
Compac's sales analysis solution will be based on the standard Vizion BI SA solution with several customizations. It will provide a data mart containing invoiced sales, standard product costs, invoiced sales unit volumes, and invoiced standard gross margins, with rollup structures by product (part number, sub-class, class), customer (customer class, parent customer, customer bill-to), industry, plant/division/location, and sales organization. Microsoft Excel templates will be developed to deliver standard views of the information.
Vizion BI solutions are built specifically for MAC-PAC XE and tailored to individual company needs. Utilizing data already held in MAC-PAC XE, Vizion BI applications help decision makers more effectively track, understand, and manage performance within their organization. Vizion BI solutions enable companies to focus on key performance measures combined with actionable information to improve both strategic and tactical decision making.
Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE combine tools and expertise from both Vizion Solutions and TDCI to deliver tailored solutions quickly and affordably. Recognizing that every company is different, the Vizion/TDCI team develops applications tailored to each company's specific needs by following a proven, structured process. That process utilizes Vizion's BI templates, models and tools, along with MAC-PAC XE data extract, transformation, and load capabilities provided by the TDCI Integration Server. Pre-defined solution models combined with in-depth MAC-PAC XE data and business process knowledge dramatically reduce the time, effort, and cost of developing BI applications. Pre-defined solution models are available or planned for:
- Financial Reporting
- Sales Analysis
- Profitability Analysis
- Budgeting
- Inventory Analysis
- Forecasting Analysis
- POS (sales and inventory)
- Service Reporting
Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE are built around comprehensive data marts loaded from the MAC-PAC XE database using intelligent data transformation. That means the information used for analysis and reporting carries forward the meaning and associated logic users are accustomed to in MAC-PAC XE.
Building on this foundation, Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE deliver the technology and tools to provide:
- A process for organizing data to optimize the retrieval of information
- A business performance monitoring framework
- A flexible, easy-to-use analysis and reporting environment
Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE offer a powerful, yet practical approach to implementing the kind of business intelligence solutions MAC-PAC XE users have wanted for a long time. To learn more, contact Shelley Horn at shorn@tdci.com or 614-781-2325, ext 119.
