Statements like these are excellent for marketing but do they help operations? In my experience, they have become part of most retailers’ and wholesalers’ identity. They help to create environments with extreme focus on doing everything possible to satisfy the customers, a behaviour that is causing some problems in operations. At ABC Softwork, I work […]
It is now possible to save setups as templates in ABC Analyzer. So what is a template? Basically, it ‘s an ABC project without the data. Why use templates? Let’s say you’ve loaded data, made filters, formulas and categorizations, and you want to share
It all began with Pareto and the 80/20 principle. The inventor Vilfredo Pareto was born in France in 1848, and no-one expected that he would discover a natural principle which can be applied to almost all fields of science. The discovery was made during a study of how wealth was distributed among the Italian population. In […]
When you create a calculated column in ABC Analyzer (see link), you have a variety of predefined functions at your disposal. You can combine these functions as you like, which makes creating a complex formula easy. In the usual “Edit Formula” dialog (that you find by clicking “Functions->Add” in the top menu in ABC Analyzer) the […]
Let’s look at how easy it is to calculate new columns in ABC Analyzer. Example, suppose we want to calculate a new column called Turnover rate. We open the “Edit Formula”-dialog by clicking “Functions->Add” in the top menu in ABC Analyzer: In the “Field name” textbox, we type Turnover rate to give the new column […]
Best practice: Bevola A/S has reduced inventory levels dramatically through special agreements with key subcontractors. What is most surprising is that the new agreements are for mutual benefits. Bevola, a Europe-based manufacturing company offering products and solutions for the transport sector, has reduced inventory levels on their most important products (AA […]
We recently made some changes to the functions handeling dates in ABC Analyzer. These changes were made to mirror the way that Excel handles dates in formulas. As of version 4.1.0 of ABC Analyzer, the base date for all date operations will be Jan. 1st 1900. There is one important difference from Excel though! Excel considers […]
26 of March 2010 we are hosting a workshop at the conference Lageroptimering 2010. Join in on the afternoon session and learn more about Differentiated Purchasing Strategies and Inventory Management. The conference is hosted in Taastrup just outside of Copenhagen. Sign up here
In the current version (4.1.0) of ABC Analyzer, we have made it possible to save resources and boost performance by deleteing data excluded by the filter. We have added a button to the filter menu that simply deletes the excluded rows along with the filters made to exclude them. After doing so, you will have […]
In the name of good performance, we have changed ABC Analyzer. The program will no longer display the “Updating views” progress bar and update all data views when importing data, making new categorizations, formulas, filter criteria etc. Instead, we are updating views when you click them – and (of course) only if needed. This will greatly […]