Operations
Benefits and Value

Cognos provides the most comprehensive suite of integrated performance management software and services.

The following metrics, reports, and plans deliver the insight needed by Operations to reduce costs, manage inventory, streamline processes, and increase profitability.

Reporting, analysis, and business intelligence
Meet the information needs of all users with flexible, user-friendly reports, dashboards, and online analysis on vital topics such as:

• Production lead times.
• Bill of materials costs.
• Production cost variances.
• Downtime analysis.
• Supplier fill rates.
• Customer satisfaction.

Learn more about Cognos reporting, analysis, and business intelligence.

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Planning, forecasting, and consolidation
Use integrated planning, modeling, and budgeting software to build cross-divisional plans for:

• Production planning.
• Logistics planning.
• Bill of materials planning.
• Inventory planning.

Learn more about Cognos planning and consolidation software.

See a demo of our integrated planning software.

Scorecarding
Communicate priorities and key metrics across Operations to answer the key question: Are we making progress on the things that must be done?

• Planned units.
• Days late.
• Customer backlog.
• Inventory costs and turns.
• On-time deliveries.

Learn more about Cognos scorecarding software.

See a demo of our Balanced Scorecard-certified software.

Supply chain analytics
Cognos offers an analytics application that delivers hundreds of pre-built reports, metrics, and connections to standard data sources. Understand your supply chain performance, throughput, quality, productivity, inventory, and costs.

Learn more about Cognos Supply Chain Analytics.