User:Rlung/Supply chain analytics

Supply Chain Analytics is a technique to interrogate key supply chain historical data includes stock levels, sales history, sale demand, order fulfilment, inventory turns and future demand forecasts. the output usually presents as follows:
 * Quantities, volume, values, costs, profit, margin, mark-up & percentage;
 * Over time periods range - by comparing this year with last year or any period against any period;
 * Against budgets or forecasts;
 * Matrix, charts or graphs of customer, product, time and business sector;
 * Indicator of identifying high or low performance;
 * Warnings based upon key business criteria.

Benefits of using supply chain analystic are:
 * To identify areas for improvement and drive further efficiencies in your business processes;
 * To improve customer satisfaction;
 * To identify areas of new opportunities, i.e. Value Added Services;
 * To capture and forecast further growth in business sectors.