Category: Reporting

Maximize Efficiency with Supply and Demand Planning Analytics for JD Edwards

June 19, 2024 | by David Kettinger

Today, according to Allied Market Research on Supply Chain Management, only 6% of companies claim to have full visibility into their supply chain. Furthermore, their 2023 report claims that organizations can double profits by reducing supply chain costs. This indicates that most companies can stand to make a lot more money if they are able to increase transparency through better access to supply chain information and more efficient processes. At Preferred Strategies, we’ve been helping manufacturing companies that run JD Edwards gain visibility into their supply chain processes since 2002 with our QuickLaunch for JDE solution. The latest QuickLaunch product

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Power BI Updates for Enterprise Analytics: Q2 2023 – Part 1

June 29, 2023 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2023.

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AN ERP system connecting all other aspects of business.

ERP Data: Are You Using It or Just Collecting It?

October 20, 2022 | by Preferred Strategies

Many companies never touch the majority of the data they collect because it’s locked up deep in their Enterprise Resource Planning Data (ERP). ERP is software your organization can use to manage its day-to-day business activities. These activities include accounting, project management, compliance, procurement, risk management, and supply chain operations. Your ERP can track activities that naturally occur in your business. This software can coordinate the flow between all these activities with the data it collects, often in real-time. Most companies’ ERP collects information that can increase productivity, cut costs, and identify bottlenecks, and they are not utilizing it. Join

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Acceleration gap ahead warning sign.

The Acceleration Gap: Is Your Organization Adapting to Change

October 6, 2022 | by Preferred Strategies

How would you like to decrease the amount of money your organization spends? Or what about increasing productivity while having happy employees at the same time? It’s all possible if your organization is structured in a way that allows it to adapt to change. These days, most employees are experiencing burnout. Meanwhile, the power of technology to allow a business to grow is increasing every day. Unfortunately, this is causing an acceleration gap, meaning the difference between the pace of technology and the ability of companies to keep up is getting farther and farther apart. This is why it is

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: Q3 2021

November 18, 2021 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2021.

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Are You Ready to Tackle Your Junk Data?

September 23, 2021 | by Ben Harrison

If your data is ‘junk’, you can never become a data driven organization.

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2020 will see modern BI & self-service analytics central to digital transformation initiatives

2020 Will See Modern BI & Self-Service Analytics Central to Digital Transformation Initiatives

December 17, 2019 | by David Kettinger

If “Digital Transformation” was the watchword in 2019, it will be the driving force in 2020—and beyond. This year organizations continued to adopt policies and technologies in efforts to become increasingly data-driven and establish a “data culture” within their companies.

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Thanksgiving Visualized: The Holiday in Maps, Charts and Graphics

November 26, 2019 | by Preferred Strategies

Once again we’ve curated some fun Thanksgiving-related articles and visualizations for your post-turkey reading. Enjoy!

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