• The Strategic Link to Operations

  • Drill-Down-Anywhere TM Analysis

  • New Matrix-Business-Analysis TM Methodology

  • New Measures of Global to Local discrepencies

4S Manager is an innovative Strategic Decision Support System which allow managers to make effective informed decisions to that can directly impact the key success factors in all functions of a company:  Finance, Marketing, Sales, Logistics, Manufacturing, Purchasing, R&D, and more. It directly links strategy and operations by providing powerful data interpretation and exploration capabilities that will enable corporate convergence between strategic thinking and operational action

Strategic Vision

Custom Indicators

"Drill Down Anywhere"
 levels of analysis

 

Matrix (bubble chart)

 

 

Time Line (bar charts)

 

Three different windows work in concert to explore any aspects of the knowledge base:  the Matrix, the Time Line and the List view.

Quadrant Analysis of Matrix

 

3 Year Evolution on Matrix

 

Visual Queries on Subsets

 

 

Functionality

Strategic Exploration

  • Drill-Down Anywhere™
  • Matrix Business Analysis™
  • Visual Color Queries
  • Quadrant Analysis
  • Time Line Display
  • Bar Chart Display
  • Item List Display
  • Visual Color Sorts
  • Data Details and Sorts
  • Data Interpretation Builder
  • Dynamic link with MS Office®

Data Set and Function Capabilities*

  • Up to 10 Million transactional records (feed data lines)
  • Up to 15 Basic Indicators (Revenue, Costs, Units, etc)
  • Up to 100 Calculated Indicators (% Margin, Growth, etc.)
  • Up to 10 Basic Components (Customers, Products, etc)
  • Up to 50,000 items / Basic Component (Customers, Products, etc)
  • Up to 10 Aggregated levels (Families, Sub-Families, Categories)
  • Up to 5 Indicators viewed simultaneously
  • From 5 to 100 Drill-down Levels
  • Point and Click Reorder and Drill-down
  • Explore All Data or Drill-through sub sets
  • Time Increments from Minutes to Years

Versatility

Multiple Indicators …

 

Multiple Applications…

 

Multiple Industries …

% Margin, Expenses, Profit

Actual Rev, Margin, Units

 Defects/Returns, Backorders

 Financial Ratios, Cash Flow

 Growth % Rev, GM, Units

 Growth Yr/Yr, Mth/Mth

 Inventory Units, Costs

 Other: Staff, Market Share

Target Rev, Margin, Units

Turns (Inv, Receivables)

Units (Inventory, Sales)

Finance

Human Resources

Information Services

Logistics

Manufacturing

Marketing

Project Management

Purchasing

Research

Service

Service & Support

 

 

Consumer Goods

Distribution/Retail

Energy

Financial Services

Industrial Goods

Insurance

Government

Healthcare

Market Research

Pharmaceuticals

Telecommunications