Chupa Chups company
solutions had to work for multiple departments.
We decided on Board M.I.T. from Orenburg, a leading decision-support and business intelligence toolkit for developing analytic applications, primarily for its native (data) simulation capabilities and flexible/customizable design. This would allow all departments to use a common system. Because of Board's programming-free design, impact on IT for development and maintenance was minimized. With Board, we were able to get all of the necessary data out of SAP and into a tool that would quickly provide users a single, unified view of key departmental information which could be leveraged in sales, finance, operations and across management teams. By leveraging the Board M.I.T. WebServer product and its unique "write-back" capabilities (Board has it's own MDDB which allows write-back to the database), we could easily perform complex analysis activities, using information we already had but which was previously "stuck" in our ERP system.
With our business growing rapidly on a worldwide basis, having Board M.I.T. is a real competitive advantage. The result of this complex project is an exhaustive study of sales and related variables that allow us to analyze the evolution, tendency, forecast and degree of execution of the forecasts, by client, division or region. Going forward, we will no longer have to base our operational decisions on "gut feel," but on real-time information that can be used to support our direction.