QueBIT's IBM Edition December 2022 Newsletter

ESG Reporting as a Step towards Better Performance
If you work in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) you regularly use financial metrics or KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure and manage performance. As FP&A extends into xP&A (Extended Planning & Analysis), non-financial operational metrics begin to pop up. This QueBIT blog post provided metrics for Lead Time and Customer Fulfilment (OTIF = “on-time, in-full”, and CFR = “case fill rate”) as just two of many possible examples of these. Turn Sustainability Hype into Real Benefit Paying attention to a balanced portfolio of financial and operational metrics and understanding how they affect each other while also comparing your metrics against industry benchmarks goes a long way towards disentangling the effects of skill versus luck. While “luck” is nice, “skill” is what will sustain you when your luck runs out, so it is worth knowing how much of your success (or failure) is due to one or the other. Read More

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QueBIT's Podcast
QueBIT's podcast series “Ask QueBIT about Analytics” shares what we have learned with real life stories and practical advice which will help you on your analytics journey. Christoph Hein, our guest this week, epitomizes this kind of fandom as an active member of the global community of TM1 adherents. TM1, which is now IBM Planning Analytics, is a multi-dimensional database and modeling platform used for many financial and operational planning and reporting applications in companies of all sizes around the world. In this conversation, Christoph shares how he went from studying History in University to being the “TM1 Fan Boy” and shares several interesting non-traditional examples of how TM1 is used where he works, at Deutsche Bahn. We also get to hear about the planninganalyticsguide.com website, which Christoph’s passion project in collaboration with BARC, and analyst firm. Have a good analytics story that others could benefit from? Share your story on our next podcast. Email us at info@quebit.com.

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Check out two new IBM Planning Analytic Solutions videos! The IBM Workforce Planning model developed in IBM Planning Analytics. In this demonstration, we'll walk through the process of planning a new hire in our standard WFP model. Users can easily and efficiently plan their workforce outside of their typical silos by leveraging Planning Analytics xP&A capabilities. The second is a Top Down Planning model developed in IBM Planning Analytics. In this demonstration, we'll walk through the process of creating a top down plan in our model. Utilizing IBM's Planning Analytics enables users to maximize their analysis by quickly spreading down their targets to the lowest level of detail.

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Perter Horgan, Implementation Manager

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