Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Tables
- 3 Relationship Diagrams
- 4 Data Store
- 5 Data Lineage
- 6 Data Augmentation
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Subject Areas
- Subject Areas
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Business Questions
- How effective is an organization to schedule and manage fulfillment end-to-end cycle times?
- How is purchase distributed across suppliers?
- How long does it take for purchase requisitions to get approved?
- How many approvers on a average are approving agreements?
- How many approvers on a average are approving purchase orders?
- How many non-catalog purchase requisitions are created by volume, item, and amount?
- How many times are we amending agreements and whether amendment initiation is internal or external?
- How many times are we amending purchase orders and whether amendment initiation is internal or external?
- How much did the organization spend with suppliers, commodities, buyers, cost center, contracts vs non contracts, leakage etc.?
- Identify items and categories with cost-saving potential in procurement operations based on prices.
- Identify items, categories, and suppliers with compliance issues in their purchase agreements.
- Identify the key areas for improving process efficiencies.
- Is a company using strategic suppliers and contracts effectively?
- Top 10 inventory movements by plant or item category
- Top 10 items issues by transaction type
- Top 10 items receipts by transaction type
- What are cycle times in terms of PR and PO Approval, PR to PO conversion?
- What are my cycle times for agreement approvals?
- What are my lead time standard and variances in purchase cycles?
- What are my negotiation to agreement approval cycle times?
- What are my processing and post processing lead time standards and variances for an Item?
- What are my products and services for which we have agreements?
- What are my purchase volume across business units?
- What are purchase orders creation sources and corresponding requisition sources?
- What are return rates for suppliers?
- What are the agreements utilization rates?
- What is an organization's current period order booking, open, shipped, invoiced, returned, open returned, past due amount in terms of quantity and amounts?
- What are the creation sources for agreements?
- What is an organization's inventory position across supply chain in terms of quantity?
- What is an organization's inventory value across supply chain for an item, item category, and organization?
- What is my contract vs off contract spend?
- What is the average hold times for different kinds of holds?
- What is the centralized view of all procurement requests for purchasing department?
- What is the classification of purchase requisitions by status, type, source of created for a period and associated purchase order details?
- What is the inventory valuations for items or item category for a given period?
- What is the item unit cost by different cost subelements like material, material overhead, and overhead by value and percentage?
- What is the item unit cost for a cost organization and different cost books?
- What is the shipment and delivery performance for an organization in terms of perfect order, shipped in full and on time (shipment and delivery) percentages?
- What is the total booking, returns, shipped, on time shipped, perfect orders, shipped in full, late shipped amounts trends?
- What is the trend for onhand quantity by product and category?
- What is the trend in inventory movement in and out for items, item category, and plants?
- What is the trend in inventory valuations for items and organizations?
- What is the trend of item costs over a period of time?
- What items are showing most volatile trend over a period of time?
- What commodities and services have been purchased, in what volume and price?
- What is accepted and rejected rates for commodities, by suppliers?
- What receipts are created manually or through ASNs?
- What type of holds are applied to orders?
- What,when and how much materials are being returned?
- When were products shipped and what is the average delivery times?
- Which agreements are under utilized?
- Which agreements are utilized before expiry?
- Which all orders have holds applied currently and in the past?
- Which product, category, organization are high in terms of inventory quantity in the asset subinventory location?
- Which suppliers deliver consistently on time?
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Job Roles
- Account Payable Invoice Supervisor
- Account Payable Payment Supervisor
- Accounts Payable Manager
- Accounts Payable Specialist
- Accounts Payable Supervisor
- Buyer
- Category Manager
- Cost Accountant
- Inventory Manager
- Order Administrator
- Order Manager
- Procurement Contract Administrator
- Procurement Manager
- Purchase Analysis
- Warehouse Manager
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Duty Roles
- Inventory Balances Analysis Duty
- Inventory Transactions Analysis Duty
- Inventory Valuations Analysis Duty
- Item Cost Analysis Duty
- Order Management Analysis Duty
- Order Management Holds Analysis Duty
- Procurement Purchase Agreement Analysis
- Procurement Purchase Order Analysis Duty
- Procurement Purchase Receipts Analysis Duty
- Procurement Requisitions Analysis Duty
- Procurement Spend Analysis Duty
- Subject Area Metric Details
- Descriptive Flexfield (DFF)
- 8 Prebuilt