Consumer Packaged Goods Industry Solutions

 

Business Objects provides a comprehensive set of business intelligence solutions to improve performance in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. Our CPG customers include leading apparel makers; makers of personal and household care products; food and beverage manufacturers; paper and business forms makers; and pet products companies.

Key Features

Business Metrics

Sales and Marketing Effectivness Analytics provides the following business metrics:

  • Value Sales. Revenue from regular trading activity. This can be measured by numerous dimensions, such as channel, customer, product, and time.
  • Average Order Value. Average amount that a customer spends. This can be measured by numerous dimensions, such as average customer spend within a channel, or an individual customer's average spend.
  • Order Frequency. Frequency with which a customer places an order. This is an average, measured across time and channel (the most typical within this solution).
  • Products Bought. Proportion of total sales that a particular entity represents. In this solution those entities are usually channel, customer, and product.
  • Sales change Year on Year. Percentage change in sales revenue year on year.
  • Marketing Spend Change Year on Year. Change in marketing budget spend on a particular brand year on year.
  • Progress to Target. This shows the current progress to target and is expressed as a percentage.
  • Market Share. The share that your product has of the market. The market is typically defined as a category of products that are grouped together as they have similar attributes.
  • Distribution. Also known as all commodity volume (ACV).
  • Weighted Distribution. This is the percentage of stores that are selling your product, weighted by the turnover of that store.
  • Sales Forecast. The sales revenue that a sales person is forecasting for a particular deal. This measure is additive across time and across the sales organization.
  • Marketing Budget. The amount of money that the marketing department has at its disposal to spend on supporting brands within the company's portfolio.

Addressing Your Business Issues

BusinessObjects Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analytics allow you to analyze your promotion activity, track promotion details, and take timely action to see returns on your investment. Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analytics addresses the need for a holistic view of key performance indicators that measure the effectiveness of trade fund spending and delivers one version of the truth across the organization. The solution allows for access to information by brand, product, channel, organization, customer, and geography. The ability to do timely analytic of promotional spend allows you to plan trade spend effectively, track event level success and monitor return on your trade spend investment.

Analyze Trade Promotion Activity

Trade Promotion Effectivness Analytics will help you gain a macro level view of your promotions by tracking your key performance indicators that relate to your organizations promotional spend. This enables you to control your trade promotion spend and gain insight into where promotional funds are being spent across your organization and how funds are being spent with retail customers.