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Better Business Analytics: Analytics are for everyone !
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Analytics are for everyone! Analytics are for everyone! Well, not building analytics, no. That needs a high level of expertise in statistics, machine-learning, optimization, programming, database skills, a healthy does of domain knowledge for the problem being addressed and a pretty wide masochistic streak too. Is there anyone out there that hasn't used an electronic mapping service (GPS) for directions? Perhaps you're thinking it's not that hard?
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Better Business Analytics: Newsletter Archive
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Point of Sale Analytics. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Truckload Transportation - are you paying to ship air? Inventory modeling in action. Better Point of Sale Reports with "Variance Analysis": Velocity, Distribution and Pricing. oh my! Cluster Analysis - 101. Inventory modeling is not "Normal". Point of Sale Data – Supply Chain Analytics. Visualizing Forecast Accuracy. When not to use the "start at zero" rule? Better Business Reporting in Excel.
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Better Business Analytics: Cluster Analysis - 101
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Cluster Analysis - 101. The current Wikipedia page on Cluster Analysis, excerpted below, is correct, detailed and makes absolute sense. Then again, if you do not have a background in statistical modeling, I'm guessing these two paragraphs leave you no wiser. In this post I hope to provide a workable introduction for people that need to be educated consumers of cluster analysis. One option would be to treat all stores as being the same, come up wi...
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Better Business Analytics: Next Generation DSRs - Bring the Analytics to the data
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Next Generation DSRs - Bring the Analytics to the data. Under old world analytics, you move data from the DSR to your analytic server, build models, then write results (sometimes models too) back out for integration into the DSR. Now, consider this:. DSR datasets are often enormous. 2 years of data for a DSR I worked with recently input to a model was approx. 270 GB). Analytic tools are small. Analytic models are tiny. Let's try that visually.
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How to explain analytics to decision makers - SAS Voices
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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work. Evolving relationships for business growth. Your pathway from strategy to process to repeatable value creation. A SAS blog for the rest of us. Statistical programming in SAS with an emphasis on SAS/IML programs. Operations Research with SAS. Optimize, Simulate, Understand. Data visualization, statistical discovery, design of experiments, predictive modeling and more. Data Visualization with a focus on SAS ODS Graphics. A Shot in the Arm.
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Better Business Analytics: Inventory modeling in action
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Inventory modeling in action. Inventory modeling and inventory optimization attempt to drive out unnecessary inventory from your systems, to improve service levels to your customers. This does work and can drive very significant reductions in inventory, but, if you lack discipline around execution you will not get as much value as you should. You do need a good model. Better models yield better results. If inventory really matters to you, you may...
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Better Business Analytics: Next Generation DSRs - Analytic Freedom !
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Next Generation DSRs - Analytic Freedom! For small-scale models (do we do those anymore? That sip data from the original repository you can do this through the reporting engine and live with the pain, for large scale modeling it's really not an option. I want freedom. Freedom to analyze with whatever tools I need. I suppose I could live with a little less freedom if a DSR offered all the tools I need but I don't think that's realistic. Not al...
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Better Business Analytics: September 2014
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Next Generation Point of Sale Analytics. Over the last few months I've been exploring the features I want to see in a next generation platform for point of sale analytics: It's simpler, faster and cheaper, supports rapid blending of new data sources and is powered up with real analytic capability. Looking back there are a lot of posts on this topic so here is a quick summary with links back to the detail. Database technology has moved on dramatic...
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Better Business Analytics: Inventory modeling is not "Normal"
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Business Analytics and Predictive Modeling for CPG/Retail. Inventory modeling is not "Normal". We can build models to know how much inventory we need to hold of each product in each location. Do this well and you improve service levels AND reduce inventory. I've posted on this topic before including an online calculator from a relatively simple Excel model to help you visualize the relationship between uncertainty, lead-time and case-fill rate. (Check out. How much Inventory do you really need? What if t...
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