The rigorous pressures felt in this industrial sector are universal, regardless of what it is a company manufactures. Increasingly demanding customers, the inexorable rise of consolidation and globalisation, and the need for regulatory compliance have transformed one of the most ancient industries into an extremely competitive marketplace.

Modernisation and expansion have brought their own challenges; senior management require a global view of the entire organisation in order to make informed strategic decisions. Individuals need information on-hand to make confident decisions that they know are aligned with corporate goals. An integrated business intelligence solution can provide all this, producing a large return from a small investment.

SolStonePlus for the Manufacturing Industry

Our Business Intelligence solutions enable the manufacturing companies to enhance fundamental areas of their business, including:

• Assets and capital managed more effectively by evaluating data and predicting future developments.
• Customer behaviour tracked and analysed to successfully understand and predict individual demands.
• Marketing strategy improved and costs controlled through evaluation of historical information.
• Product line-up can be reconsidered and refined through geographical and historical profitability data. Innovations launched at the optimal time.
• Market trends and the sales trajectory of new or supplementary products accurately predicted.
• Supply inefficiencies highlighted producing information to drive fact-based negotiations or reconsider pricing structures.
• Stock levels optimised by immediate access to information enabling informed decisions to reduce excess, enhance a Just In Time strategy, or respond quickly to market opportunities or threats.
• Third parties in the supply chain – suppliers, distributors and customers – granted data access, improving performance and communications.