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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.

  • 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.

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

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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.
“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, Inc.
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