Need a Custom Dashboard? No Problem
Imagine you’re given a blank slate to create a tool that will give you business visibility into metrics crucial for your organization. You simply provide the wish list, and the experienced team at LynnCo creates a custom solution uniquely suited to your business operations.
A concrete solution
This story isn’t a fairy tale. LynnCo professionals approached a client — whose personnel require the ability to deliver an industry-leading customer experience — with the idea of developing a custom dashboard to meet day-to-day metric-tracking needs. Starting with a blank slate, LynnCo experts worked with the client to create the wish list that resulted in this completely custom solution.
The client now employs the solution to quickly and easily access the four metrics that dominate hour-by-hour tasks. In general terms, the types of metrics this client’s employees require include
- number of units shipped by week,
- unit shipping cost broken out by GL code,
- units in transit by shipping warehouse, and
- units ready to ship by shipping warehouse.
And the client requires these metrics be available from different angles and time spans: The CEO wants to know the month-to-month unit cost while the operations team needs to know which products have shipped or are ready to ship.
LynnCo work scope: How it works
With the key performance indicator (KPI) list — for example, cost per load, cost per pound, and cost per mile — LynnCo professionals develop reporting tools that enable deep dives from all necessary angles for business leaders and their employees.
LynnCo experts start by analyzing the client’s work scope, reviewing the wish list, and inventorying existing tools, such as monitors. They follow a process to detail requirements, testing, and fine-tuning before finally releasing the dashboard to the production team. This process is surprisingly turnkey if you’re part of the LynnCo supply chain performance management program because LynnCo professionals use your data to manage the metrics development process and can achieve a forensic focused measurement level based on your specific data.
The LynnCo team draws on industry experience and cutting-edge awareness to develop custom solutions that meet each client’s exact needs. For example, they might use the following data, views, and reporting needs to build a custom dashboard:
- Hour-to-hour, day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year views
- Units ready to go out today
- Expense code groups, changes over the past quarter, “What’s driving your costs up?”
- “What costs more” indicator
- Easy-to-pull presentation-ready reports and PDF or Excel file exports
- C-level views to quickly determine trending direction
- Alerts for cost spikes and immediate analysis by order, unit, week, month, and location
Not just data — the right data
In this day and age, having enough data isn’t a problem. Having the right data is the answer. Business leaders need tools that handle formulas and calculations to deliver actionable real-world data that’s applicable to concrete tasks. The benefits of this type of solution are immense: There’s one formula, so one house unit means what accounting team members see is what operations department members see. Individuals throughout the whole organization have access to the same data version. This means a CEO can log in and, with three clicks, see how many units shipped week over week, what types shipped, how many are left, how many are waiting to roll out, and more — rather than having to call shipping, purchasing, and another three departments to access the data.
“Even with all this data and complexity, at the end of the day, you want to know: Did we win today?” says Michael Collier, Solutions Strategist at LynnCo Supply Chain Solutions. “Did all the things we’re doing provide a win for the company? The answers are accessible via a custom dashboard that lets you quickly deduce whether what you’re doing is working day over day, quarter over quarter, year over year … whatever suits your outlook and planning needs.”
Tools for success
LynnCo experts recognize that you can really only improve what you can measure. The ability to measure custom metrics that you define gives you the visibility to make agile and informed decisions daily and in the long term. As thought leaders in metrics management, LynnCo team members can do what they’ve done for so many clients: help you create a custom dashboard that will enable quick and thorough deep dives as well as microanalytic capabilities that will set your organization up for ongoing and increasing success.
[cta]For more information on how to put LynnCo solutions to work for your business, contact your Solutions Strategist, Jeanette Sefers, at Jeanette.Sefers@lynnco-scs.com.[/cta]
