Purchasing Analysis Tool

PURCHASING ANALYSIS TOOL

Booz-Allen & Hamilton, founded in 1914, is an international management and technology consulting firm. A privately held corporation, the company has 6700 staff members in more than 80 offices around the world and a client base that includes more than 70 of the world's largest 100 corporations. The company, which had 1995 sales in excess of $1.1 billion, provides strategy, operations, technology, and systems consulting.

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SS/DSS is a mechanism for identifying, analyzing, and diagnosing opportunities to improve purchasing performance, such as optimum supplies, purchasing levels, and categories. Using Web-based tools for a DSS helps propagate "best practices" analysis frameworks and consistent purchasing rules across a distributed organization, thus ensuring ongoing improvements in the purchasing process. SS/DSS includes structured and flexible tools that allow analysis of historic purchasing data, such as:

specific diagnostic frameworks to support supplier and spend fragmentation analysis;

structured diagnostic query to identify suppliers meeting specific user-defined selection criteria;

predefined graphs and reports for performing spend analysis within and across business units; and

a flexible Java-based OLAP tool for drill-down, pivot, filter, and selection on purchasing database.

User Profile
The purchasing organization (procurement specialists, buying teams, etc.), senior management, business units, and plant managers.

Of Interest to Developers

Java applets and JavaScript perform graphical operations and dynamic web-page creation.

LiveWire objects (server, project, client, and request) are used by the application to maintain context information for every individual user.

Frames provide a consistent navigation metaphor through the application.

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