Learn how leading consumer goods companies are leveraging analytics to gain market share, improve operations and make better business decisions in challenging economic times. Attendees will gain valuable insights into: •best practices for implementing a robust analytics approach •success stories of leading consumer goods companies that are using analytics effectively •how analytics enables strategic decision-making in challenging economic times •how implementing an analytics solution can be affordable, fast & customizable to your business FastTrack Analytics gives you an opportunity to experience the value of analytics, using your data for a point solution that is customized to your business. FastTrack Analytics is an affordable, long-term solution that can be implemented quickly to fit your immediate needs. With FastTrack Analytics you can get value out of your data now without waiting for the entire enterprise to get onboard.

1. FastTrack! Analytics for Consumer Goods Webinar May 5, 2010

2. Contents

4. Advisory Services

5. Vertical Services

6. Enterprise Applications

7. Strategic Technical & Data Services

8. Founded in 1992

9. Headquartered in Wakefield, MA

10. 335 Employees

11. Large North American Footprint

12. Focus on Middle and Global 2000 Market

14. Why Analytics for Consumer Goods? Why should I be considering analytics? Drive top-line growth via enhanced information Fact-based decisions vs. tribal knowledge Manage bottom line costs and efficiency Drive added value from existing data Increase competitive stance – explore options! Increased visibility into business drivers

15. FastTrack! Analytics – Consumer Goods Focus Area Build on the core dimensions by adding 3-5 others to address specific business questions in one of these areas:

17. Order cancellation by reason

19. Why are orders being cancelled and what’s the net impact?

21. Increases sales (from existing customers)

23. Freight and other costs per customer, product

25. Are we allocating freight and related costs / penalties sufficiently to support true profitability analysis?

27. Increase accuracy

29. Order entry error rate

31. What is the difference in error rates between electronic and manual orders and how can we reduce manual errors?

33. Baseline performance to measure and incent meaningful improvement

35. Order fill rates by contract manufacturers

37. How are our contract manufacturers satisfying the details in their contracts?

39. Increased quality and true cost visibility

41. Margin variation by re-planning frequency

43. Are we driving our business from accurate gross margins?

45. Increased profitability

47. “It required too large of an investment to get started”

48. “I’m just too busy and short-staffed to get involved with a major initiative like data analytics”

49. “I’ve looked at several data analytics software packages, but it doesn’t really fit our unique business”

51. Based on accelerators that can be quickly customized to meet your specific business needs

54. Designed to leverage current in-house technology

55. Allows for expansion at your paceCost/Risk Sensitive

56. What are the Benefits of FastTrack! Analytics?

58. Define/confirm the data visualization capabilities required

59. Decompose the business problem(s) into required data

60. Confirm the high-level business-centric data model

61. Determine which accelerator components to use

62. Assemble the analytics data mart data model

63. Design/develop the data visualization/ dashboard

64. Create required roles

65. Create load utilities

66. Conduct testing

67. Prep for demos

68. Conduct initial demonstration of FastTrack! Solution with key stakeholders

69. Conduct up to 2 additional demo’s

70. Document recommendations for enhancements

71. Review results of demo(s) with FastTrack! sponsor

73. Data visualization components

74. Analysis specific components

75. Industry specific

76. Logical groupings of components for business challenges

77. Dimensions

78. Attribute lists

79. Default hierarchies

80. Subject areas

82. Metrics grouping extract formats

83. Look-up values

85. Extending FastTrack! Analytics The FastTrack! Analytics pilot can be extended in many different ways towards the creation of an enterprise analytics platform More Sophisticated Analytics Extended to Other Departments Additional Integrated Subject Areas Additional Users/Roles More Analytical Views Expanded Metrics Additional Data Sets Expanded Dimensions

86. Q & A Questions? Thank You!