The Four Phases of a Budget Cycle – Made Easy with the Right BI Tool
Have you ever thought about why the regular financial budget season spans over three months? It‘s because Controlling and FP&A departments have to walk a tightrope between accuracy and timely completion as they often rely on a variety of spreadsheets. What falls short is the flexibility to react to today’s world with its rapid market dynamics. Read on to learn how the right BI tool can help!
Free Your Assortment Planning from the Wedge
If it’s not just potatoes, shoes or open doors you think of when you hear the word “wedge”, then read on! If you’re in merchandising, you’ll want to learn how to replace the Wedge with an Assortment Planning tool that will maximise sales, profit, customer retention and market share.
HOPP BDG SCHWIIZ!
We are celebrating another milestone in the history of bdg: with better decisions Swiss GmbH, bdg is now officially represented in Switzerland. We are thrilled to welcome our new colleagues Reto Kaelli and Wolfgang Meixner as Co-Heads of Switzerland. They are a great team and bring with them years of experience as EPM experts. Welcome […]
What is Integrated Business Planning?
Integrated business planning … “Integrated” is one of those words that might mean anything. Time to add a little more detail. What do we mean by this and what can integrated business planning look like?
3 Reasons for BI in HR
BI in HR … Some may get their hands wet at these IT acronyms. But that doesn’t have to be the case, powerful business intelligence applications can reduce fluctuation in the company and make HR teams more flexible and faster.
Business Intelligence Competence Center (BICC)
Are you planning to implement a Business Intelligence System in your company and want to ensure that it is used in the best possible way? Then, in addition to professional change management and thorough user training, you should also consider setting up a Business Intelligence Competence Centre – BICC for short.
better together: More success through collaborative BI
Collaborative Business Intelligence solutions, or Collaborative BI for short, enable better business decisions by providing opportunities for structured collaboration and focusing on a constructive problem-solving process.
Workforce Planning – Future-proof with Digitalised Personnel Planning
How many additional staff will be needed in marketing from Q4 to reach the agreed targets? What qualifications do we need in R&D next year? Who already has them and for whom is what training needed? What are the costs associated with all this?
With BI and the Balanced Scorecard to integrated corporate management
For a holistic view of the company, the Balanced Scorecard can play an important role and effectively support decisions. Business Intelligence solutions enable the efficient use of the Balanced Scorecard by minimising manual effort.
Next Level Merchandise Planning – Successful purchase planning for retailers
When companies grow rapidly, non-optimised processes quickly reach their limits. This also applies to planning processes, especially if they are carried out purely in Excel. Time-consuming, error-prone, inhomogeneous – Excel processes can hardly cope with dynamic, complex planning requirements.