Retail

IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints

Cognos, an IBM company, has partnered with retail industry leaders to create IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints. Blueprints provide streamlined planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting functionality. They enable organizations to quickly align strategic objectives, operational plans, people, and activities. Most important, they help drive faster ROI and reduce total cost of ownership.

IBM Cognos Store operations (P&L) Performance Blueprint

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The IBM Cognos Store Operations (P&L) Performance Blueprint provides integrated financial planning capabilities, allowing retailers to perform collaborative store-level revenue and expense planning to ensure that individual store plans are in line with corporate targets.

IBM Cognos Store Development Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos Store Development Performance Blueprint lets retailers understand what store development projects deliver the highest business benefits, best returns, and greatest support for corporate objectives. It allows chains to define initiatives for new stores, upgrades, or remodels; develop financial plans; apply initiatives to regions, stores, or groups of stores; and communicate initiatives to store managers.

IBM Cognos Strategic Promotion planning Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos Strategic Promotion Planning Blueprint empowers marketing executives and promotions managers to allocate marketing spend, model multiple scenarios, and then analyze and evaluate the success of their promotions. This enables more efficient use of company and trade dollars to drive higher returns.

IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint helps merchandising executives meet sales objectives and profitability goals through an improved merchandise planning process that is fully synchronized with other parts of the organization including finance, operations, and marketing.

IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint allows retailers to model the financial impact of business decisions and gain a snapshot of performance for key metrics. This provides accountability to a single set of financial measures and business goals across the chain.

Additional Resources:

Retail Performance Management: Increase Visibility and Drive Profitable Growth

White Paper

Learn about the benefits of using Cognos performance management to gain deep business insight, improve decision-making, and succeed in the highly competitive retail marketplace.

Retail Perspectives: Maximize the Return on Customer

Article

Three perspectives on the retail industry. Learn how customer data drives more successful campaigns, why retailers need tighter integration with their supply chains, and how the IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint can improve inventory planning.

Selecting the Right Retail Planning Solution

White Paper

This software selection guide provides some key factors to consider when evaluating enterprise planning solutions, and it makes the business case for Cognos as the best-in-class performance management system provider.

IBM Cognos Retail Store Development Planning Performance Blueprint

Online Demo

Learn how Cognos retail performance management solutions can help chains align corporate objectives with operating plans to operate more profitably and efficiently.

Retail Performance Management Podcast with JCB Partners

Podcast

An interview with Brad Smith of JCB partners. Includes a survey of current trends in the retail industry and how JCB and Cognos partner to provide a retail performance management solution to improve performance in merchandising, pricing, and other key areas and walks through a typical retail performance management engagement.

IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Blueprint: Align Merchandise Plans with Corporate Strategies, Customer Demands

Issue Paper

Learn how retail chains can meet sales objectives and profitability goals through a merchandise planning process that is synchronized with both finance and operations.

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