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Blog Posts for Category: Reporting

What Are Business Reports & Why They Are Important: Examples & Templates

Business reports examples and templates for managers by datapine

In your daily operations, you likely notice your processes and ‘activities’ constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes, among many others.

All these little alterations in your organizational activities are impacting the global well-being of your company, your warehouse, your restaurant, or even your healthcare facility. Whether you manage a big or small company, business reports must be incorporated to establish goals, track operations, and strategy to get an in-depth view of the overall company state.

But with so much information being collected daily from every department, static business reports created manually will not give your company the fresh insights it needs to stay competitive. Businesses that want to succeed in today’s crowded market need to leverage the power of their insights in an accessible and efficient way. This is where modern business reports created with interactive data visualizations come to the rescue. 

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Getting Started With Strategic & Operational Reports

Operational and strategic reporting by datapine

In the Age of Information, a company can accelerate its success by harnessing its organizational data in a way that is both efficient and value-driven.

To squeeze every last drop of value from your data, both in an operational and strategic sense, it’s important to leverage the right online reporting tool. When it comes to reporting (on both a daily, weekly, and monthly basis), the plans and methods you formulate to optimize your organization will steer your long-term success.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Inventory Metrics And Best Practices

Invntory metrics & inventory management best practices for managers

In our cutthroat digital economy, colossal rafts of data are gathered, stored, analyzed, and optimized every minute of every day.  

What do these insights do, exactly? They deliver the best possible experience to customers and partners at every stage of their journey, across every channel or touchpoint. An integral part of business intelligence (BI), inventory metrics are used to help managers and professionals reach (or even surpass) their core goals, optimizing processes and increasing business value in the process.

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Top Productivity Metrics Examples & KPIs To Measure Performance And Outcomes

Productivity metrics blog post by datapine

For years, businesses have experimented and narrowed down the most effective measurements for productivity. Productivity can be measured in many different ways and at different levels, from the raw industrial output of an asset in a manufacturing facility to the specific individual sales performance of a vendor. Today, employee output is no longer represented by vague descriptions but by isolated figures that offer insight for improvement in specific areas, which can be found on an HR dashboard.

There are a lot of KPI examples out there to monitor progress and assess productivity. Likewise, there are a lot of guides on how to be productive at work. Each industry, business, and department has tailored its definition of individual productivity that performance indicators can assess. Let’s take a look at our selection of essential metrics you can use to improve your organization’s performance in several areas.

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Your Definitive Guide To Modern & Professional Procurement Reports

A guide to procurement reports by datapine

Innovation, branding, and business model aside, if your company is rife with inefficiencies and led by poor decision-making, your growth potential will become stunted. Whatever sector or industry you are in, procuring goods and services both efficiently and strategically will accelerate your success. Effective procurement analytics will save you time and money while making your organization more productive and sustainable.

If your procurement process costs you valuable time and incurs unnecessary costs, you may fall behind your competitors.

However, we live in a digital age where statistics, data, and deep-dive insights reign supreme, giving us the power to spot potential issues and inefficiencies within the business. Thanks to the right KPI software, it is much easier to identify trends and set goals to increase productivity, drive growth, and boost profits.

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