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Manufacturing &
Consumer Goods Solutions
Manufacturing companies around the world have found that business
intelligence solutions built on the MicroStrategy platform
are the key to efficient management of the enterprise. MicroStrategy’s
business intelligence platform gives manufacturing companies
the ability to analyze data from existing transactional IT
systems, ERP for example, to define, track, and respond to
the essential business parameters that are critical to running
the manufacturing enterprise.
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- Drill anywhere capability
between providers, products & customers helps optimize the
supply chain & reduce manufacturing costs.
- Data scalability in the multi-terabyte
range required to analyze item-level information
is only possible with MicroStrategy ROLAP architecture.
- Integrated function libraries
allow for creation of sophisticated profitability & financial
models.
- Proactive delivery of
information based on exception criteria allows for real-time
adjustments to quickly changing market needs.
- Zero-footprint Web interface
is ideal for analytical solutions in the manufacturing industry.
- Built-in wizards and powerful
analytical applications such as sales analysis, supply
chain analysis, human resources analysis, and financial
analysis can be deployed in a fraction of the time required
by other business intelligence systems.
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Estée Lauder selected MicroStrategy in
1997 for its BI applications & has tested nearly every
version of the MicroStrategy platform since version 4.x.

Applications:
Marketing Analysis, Inventory Mgmt, Profit & Loss,
Order Tracking, Sales Force Automation |

Lexmark's Inventory Management application alone has resulted in a significant increase in sales for both the company & its partners.

Applications:
Sales Mgmt, Inventory Mgmt, Supply Chain Mgmt, Customer Relationship
Mgmt, Click Stream Analysis |

Western Digital got the MicroStrategy 7 Platform up & running in less than a week.

Applications:
Quality Control, Inventory Mgmt, Supply Chain Mgmt |
Learn
about other MicroStrategy customer applications.
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Six out of the Top
10 automobile manufacturers depend on MicroStrategy Business
Intelligence technology to make better decisions.
Ten of the Top 10 Global CPG companies rely on MicroStrategy. |
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“We chose the MicroStrategy platform
because its ability to provide Web-based reporting and scalability
are superior to those of its competitors. MicroStrategy will give
our employees clear snapshots of our product sales and customer
buying habits. With this information, Nikon Optical Canada Inc.
will better serve its customers and forge stronger customer relationships.”

Stephan Remillard, Director of MIS, Nikon Optical Canada Inc.
“The MicroStrategy platform allows us to focus our resources quickly
on those areas that result in profit and marketplace wins. Our system
will not only give us the ability to monitor our key brands very
closely at all levels of the organization, but in the near future
will also provide our suppliers and customers the ability to securely
track sales trends for their brands on a daily basis.”

Michael Carlos, chairman and co-CEO, National Distributing Company,
Inc.
“MicroStrategy’s Web-based, highly scalable platform will help
us continue to build on our already strong supplier and customer
relationships. It will help strengthen our supply chain from beginning
to end. Key product and customer information has never been so easy
to disburse to our managers, suppliers and customers.”

Jay Davis, President and co-CEO, National Distributing Company,
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