Analytics overview

Infor M3 Analytics refers to the content of the Infor BI Application Studio package. The application collects the data from M3 Business Engine (M3 BE). M3 Analytics provides users with strategic and tactical business intelligence by generating this type of measures for analytic data or reports:

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  Provide future-oriented measures, which direct you to critical areas of business performance that needs improvement.

The reports generated by M3 Analytics for Equipment may cover these topic areas:

• Sales

  Customer, product, and sales organization, revenues and margins, revenue leakage, delivery performance, and sales versus budget or forecast

• Finance

  Customer payments and debt, financial key ratios, profit and loss, balance sheet, inventory valuation, operational metrics for accounts payable and accounts receivable, and purchase price variance

• Procurement

  Price history, supplier performance, and agreements monitoring

• Production

  Production accuracy, inventory turnover, pre- and post-calculation, scrap and yield, resource utilization, and material variances

• Warehouse/Logistics

  Forecast accuracy and stock transactions statistics

• Equipment

  Equipment profitability, equipment fleet performance, OEM claim process, rental utilization, resource utilization, technician and service-center performance

M3 Analytics offers support for these languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish.