Business Intelligence

As part of the Made2Manage ERP solution, the M2M BI applications deliver powerful data analysis tools, performance notifications and rapid access to key operational parameters that you need to improve the performance of your business. With M2M BI, you get the right information, at the right time.

Monitoring Metrics

What would you like to know about your business? Made2Manage Enterprise Business System applications help you uncover the answers to key business performance questions by enabling you to configure your system so you can focus on just the key business metrics you wish to monitor. You can access reports on all areas of your business quickly and easily get answers to questions like:

• What are the sales numbers for the quarter?
• What are the sales numbers by region and sales rep?
• How much is it costing us to produce each job?
• Which products are most profitable?

Events and Actions

With the Events and Actions (EA) tool, you can define, monitor and control a wide variety of production scenarios. For example, you can automatically be notified when inventory drops below safety stock, when changes occur to designated fields anywhere in the system or when there are shortages in material received for producing jobs. You can define these business events with priorities of green, yellow or red and a stoplight icon flashes when the event has occurred. The M2M BI EA tool allows you to:

• Manage by exception.
• Improve interdepartmental communication.
• Monitor any business metric.
• Display defined events and monitor your priorities with the alert central panel.

Exploring Operations

The Made2Manage Enterprise Explorer in M2M BI is a window into all that’s happening in your enterprise. It lets you quickly identify the challenges you face today and anticipate possible future obstacles to your business success.

When a problem arises, you can drill right into the supporting documents to analyze the root cause. The Made2Manage Enterprise Explorer enables you to:

• Gain early visibility into trouble spots in your operations.
• Customize your system for viewing only the data that is important to you.
• Find information quickly with just a few mouse clicks.
• Manage by exception.

Creating Reports

The M2M Reporter lets you create custom reports based on the criteria you choose to review. Best of all, you don’t need any programming skills to craft reports. With Made2Manage’s wizard-style interface, building reports is easy.

Reports are even available via the Internet. The M2M BI Reporter application enables you to craft or select any kind of report you require. You can:

• Generate the reports you need, quickly and easily, from the Made2Manage Enterprise Business System.
• Empower employees at all levels of your organization.
• Automate the report creation process while retaining control over output formats.
• Extract critical information based on the unique needs of your organization. M2M FastForms

You can extend the capabilities of your M2M ERP back office to meet your specific business processes without disrupting the availability of your system or calling Made2Manage each time a modification is needed. In addition, you can avoid the cost of paying for technical resources to implement baseline changes.

With innovative tools like M2M FastForms, you can immediately make the basic modifications you require to get the most out of your system investment without the hassles associated with hiring technical consultants. With M2M FastForms, you can tailor your M2M ERP system to work the way you do.

• Extend the capabilities of the forms within your M2M ERP system.
• Tailor your forms to your unique and changing business requirements.
• Reduce the costs commonly associated with form modifications.
• Make changes easily without requiring specialized IT skills.
• Implement form modifications more rapidly.

M2M Business Collaboration

As part of the Made2Manage ERP solution, M2M Business Collaboration is defined as communicating with your supply chain constituents beyond the four walls of your manufacturing organization to reduce costs and speed time to market. Communication can take place person-to-person via a user interface or system-to-system via direct data transfer. Whether you are a small or large manufacturer, these enterprise communication tools can help you control costs and gain a competitive edge.