Supply and inventory management requires a high degree of planning and analytics to forecast information that affects the totality of an enterprise. Distribution, production and purchasing are facets of operations that benefit from having readily available data in real-time. ETL software provides ERP solutions to these components of a business by improving accessibility to information across disparate systems. Having access to the entirety of data pertaining to operations enables the implementation of effective business management strategies.
World Wide Technology provides an example of the impact ETL architecture can have on data warehouse optimizations (DWO).
“Our Big Data experts and infrastructure engineers have designed and integrated hardware, software and services into a single DWO solution that alleviates performance bottlenecks, allows organizations to take full advantage of their data sets and demonstrates a real return on investment within two months.” said Bob Olwig, Vice President of Business Strategy and Innovation with World Wide Technology.
Systems integration is the foundation of improving DWO. Providing warehouses with information regarding sales enables them control inventory and distribution tasks in order to assure a high standard of customer satisfaction is achieved. By synthesizing their information with other components within their enterprise, warehouses can also provide information that enables sales departments to improve their performance.
Sales, accounting, warehousing and other departments represent the individual components of a business that must work in cooperation with one another to enable their collective success. Communication is the foundation of being cooperative. Systems integration enables these divisions to effectively communication with one another in order to work in unison. ETL software achieves the degree of connectivity that is necessary to arrive at that unity.
Management Information Analysis provides ETL architecture to businesses that seek to benefit from business intelligence software. By integrating systems, ERP is invariably improved.