Your business has questions, CD Group Accelerate delivers answers.

• Are you fully leveraging your investment in your JD Edwards environment?
• Do your decision makers have the right information at the right time?
• Does your inventory manager have the ability to quickly identify inventory turns and values over time?

The CD Group Accelerate for Inventory Analysis is the quickest and easiest way to add the power and efficiency of Oracle® Business Intelligence (BI) analysis and reporting to your JD Edwards application.

Why CD Group

CD Group delivers Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using our Accelerate project approach to help you gain insight into your business while helping you gain self sufficiency and keeping budget and scope control highly predictable. CD Group has been a partner of JD Edwards since 1993, and became a Titan Award winner in 2009.

We have been delivering BI solutions since 1999 and also offer a full range of Oracle software and services. CD Group seeks to understand your company's needs and will provide fast, cost effective and high quality solutions in order to achieve a fast return on your investment.

To request additional information please email bi@cdgroup.com.

CD Group Accelerate for Oracle Business Intelligence
Accelerate Inventory Analysis Data Sheet

CD Group's Inventory Analysis Accelerate offerings for Oracle® BI are solutions that leverage predefined data relationships and templates specifically for JD Edwards customers. These frameworks connect to your JD Edwards environment using the OBIEE platform, providing a quick implementation and deployment approach, while keeping the necessary flexibility to fit your business requirements. Accelerate takes all of the complexities of the underlying JDE data relationships, and enable self sufficient users to create their own inventory content simply by dragging and dropping fields in terms they are familiar with. Inventory Analysis Accelerate offerings create an 'analyze, and then query' mentality which differs from the typical JD Edwards static reporting.

Inventory Key Performance Indicators

Inventory Analysis Accelerate offerings provide valuable incite to actionable metrics such as:

• Inventory Turns → Which items by branch plant have my best and worst inventory turns?
• Inventory Valuation → What is my total inventory value company wide?  Which are my top 10 sku's by branch in inventory value? What items have been or are currently out of stock?
• Seasonality and Trending →  Graphically represent your quantities and values on hand over time
• Obsolescence → Which items by branch plant have not moved in the last 6 months? 12 months?
• Movement Quantities →  How much have I bought, sold, issued or scraped by product line?

Dimensional Analysis

Regardless if you are exploring a metric above or any of the additional metrics contained in standard Inventory Accelerate, you have the ability to break them down by any combination you want of the descriptive attributes contained within the templates. As part of the implementation, CD Group consultants work with you to understand the appropriate naming conventions of your data, and
tailor your category codes and other important fields to use your business jargon. Once configured, you can create reports and dashboards breaking down your metrics by the following and their attributes:

• Branch Plants
• Items
• Document Types
• Multiple Time Calendars

Our consultants will work with you to create customizable dimensional hierarchies where appropriate, enabling "drill-down"  types of analysis in OBIEE Answers, and allowing for better interaction of any Inventory Dashboards that are created.

Extensibility

CD Group has three fundamental Inventory Accelerate offerings; Inventory Accelerate, Inventory Accelerate Plus, and Inventory Accelerate DW. The base Accelerate offering connects directly to JD Edwards, allowing for a very quick implementation and resulting in real time data for the end users.

Accelerate Plus includes everything the base Accelerate offering has, and adds the power of Essbase Cubes. These cubes enhance the end user experience with faster response times, and allow write back capabilities to analyze various "what if" scenarios for planning, budgeting and forecasting. This OLAP tool also provides Excel addin capabilities for slicing and dicing of the cubes within the comfort of Excel.

Accelerate DW offerings leverage Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to extract data from JD Edwards and load it into a fully conformed data warehouse. The structure of the data warehouse is optimized into a star schema for better handling of large data sets. The OBIEE end user platform then sits on top of the data warehouse, giving end users the same capabilities that exist in the base Accelerate offering, only with better performance.

Summary

Regardless of which option you choose, end users will enjoy all of the end user functionality that comes standard with the OBIEE platform. Implementations are rapid with a focus on driving you to self sufficiency. CD Group will work with you to determine your best entry point to fit your needs. You can then grow at your own pace by adding additional functionality, or by adding additional subject areas. Inventory Accelerate offerings will help you make the most of your JD Edwards investment providing visibility to key inventory metrics, helping to create higher turns and reducing cost of inventory, all while lessoning the burden on your IT Department.
 

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