Optimize Your Supply Chain with Advanced Data Analysis
As a Supply Chain Manager, you face the challenge of gaining deep insights into every link of the supply chain. BIRDS combined with Power BI provides you with the tools to identify trends and patterns, conduct comprehensive analyses, and make better-informed decisions while minimizing risks.
Advantages for the Supply Chain Manager
The outcomes of BIRDS provide you with the tools for in-depth analysis and insights into supply chain processes.
Complete view
Don’t just rely on Microsoft Dynamics data—combine it with data from other software in your reports to get a complete picture.
One data source
With our data model, your entire organization uses the same data, definitions, and calculations. This prevents debates over issues like product margins.
Simplicity
The complex data structure of Microsoft Dynamics is transformed into facts and dimensions and translated to simple data labels in Power BI. This enables you to create comprehensive reports without any technical knowledge.
Historical insights
Processes in Dynamics get overwritten, such as the journey from prospect to customer.
BIRDS takes a daily snapshot of the data, giving you insight into how a process has evolved over time.
Productivity
With a complete overview of all your data, and the ability to create detailed reports yourself, you can identify potential bottlenecks within your organization, optimize various business processes, and enhance productivity.
Leveraging AI
BI enables AI, and this begins with high-quality data.
With BIRDS, you have access to structured and modeled data, which can be used to feed an AI model, allowing you to increase productivity and make accurate predictions about future developments.
How Tony's Chocolonely Drives the Organization with Data Using BIRDS and Power BI
Sophie van de Putte, Lead Business Planning & Performance, explains how Tony's Chocolonely utilizes BIRDS, where their data challenges lie, and how they leverage data at various organizational levels to gain insights into processes, production, supply chain, and sales.
FAQ
By default, BIRDS offers warehouse-related dashboards, such as performance overviews, inventory reliability, quality orders, non-conformities, and warehouse work rules.
Since BIRDS makes the data available in Power BI as facts and dimensions, you can also create comprehensive reports yourself to gain specific insights.
If your department requires additional dashboards, we can develop these in consultation with you.
Yes, while we specialize in Dynamics and offer different connectors and rich content packs for it, our consultants can also extract data from other business software for use in Power BI.
This allows you to integrate various data sources with Dynamics 365 data in Power BI reports, giving you a more comprehensive view of your operations.
Looking to discuss your situation?
Schedule an online session with BI advisor Joep Lugtenberg and discover how BIRDS can help you analyze Dynamics 365 data and optimize your supply chain processes.
