Business Analysts in the Consumer Goods Industry have the added complexity of integrating internal data with POS & syndicated data providers as well as other outside sources. What makes this so difficult will be explained in this series of Infographics. Retailers send various data elements. Some send EDI including sales, units, on-hand inventory and more. Others send units only. Some retailers provide store level sku data while others only provide weekly sales.

1. Business Analysts in the Consumer Goods
Industry have the added complexity of integrating
internal data with that from outside sources. What
makes this so difficult will be explained in this
series of Infographics depicting complexity
associated with these data integration issues that
will help you explain to management why reports
take so much time to develop.
What Makes Report Development
so difficult for Business Analysts in
the CPG Industry?
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How do you integrate data when retailers are
all providing different data points?
How Do you align those elements with report
requirements?
How Do you create a manageable process
when everything is different?
Units
Sold
Loyalty
On-Hand
Inventory
Sales
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Reason #1
Wal-mart
KrogerCVS
Nielsen
Every Retailer Provides Different
Data Elements... .
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