IBM partners with retail industry leaders to create IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints. Blueprints provide streamlined planning, forecasting, analysis and reporting functionality. They enable organizations to quickly align strategic objectives, operational plans, people and activities. Most important, they help drive faster ROI and reduce total cost of ownership.
IBM Cognos Store Operations (P&L) Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Store Operations (P&L) Performance Blueprint provides integrated financial planning capabilities, enabling retailers to perform collaborative store-level revenue and expense planning to ensure that individual store plans are in line with corporate targets.
IBM Cognos Store Development Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Store Development Performance Blueprint lets retailers understand what store development projects deliver the highest business benefits, best returns, and greatest support for corporate objectives. It helps chains define initiatives for new stores, upgrades or remodels; develop financial plans; apply initiatives to regions, stores or groups of stores; and communicate initiatives to store managers.
IBM Cognos Strategic Promotion Planning Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Strategic Promotion Planning Blueprint empowers marketing executives and promotions managers to allocate marketing spend, model multiple scenarios, and then analyze and evaluate the success of their promotions. This enables more efficient use of company and trade dollars to drive higher returns.
IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint helps merchandising executives meet sales objectives and profitability goals through an improved merchandise planning process that is fully synchronized with other parts of the organization including finance, operations and marketing.
IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint enables retailers to model the financial impact of business decisions and gain a snapshot of performance for key metrics. This provides accountability to a single set of financial measures and business goals across the chain.
