Business Intelligence in Manufacturing

With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy. IT departments have taken advantage of hardware improvements to economically store the increased data, however there never seems to be enough time or resources to meet the needs of factory managers who face the "fact gap" that exists between the data and the usable information required to make real business decisions. It adopted Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting & Analytics software as part of their strategic approach for attaining their goals. They are streamlining the information flow both across the organization and through the tiers of the supply chain to reduce cycle and manufacturing times and adapt quickly to market changes.