Recommended White Papers

• SAS Solutions for the Grocery Industry
  The entry of large general merchandise chains with hyperefficient supply chains into grocery during the past 10 years means that it is no longer possible for grocery retailers to compete on price alone. Grocers must anticipate and shape future demand to better satisfy each customer's unique needs. This paper discusses how SAS solutions can help grocers replace hunches with data-driven, fact-based, forward-looking decisions at the intersection of customer demand, product supply and competitive pricing.
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• Expanding Eco-Practices Benefits the Bottom Line and the Brand
  This report provides the topline results of a survey commissioned by SAS but conducted independently by Computerworld Research of business leaders on sustainable IT initiatives at their organizations. With nearly 8 out of 10 survey respondents expecting an impact of sustainability on the goods and services their organizations offer to end users, they recognize the impact on their brands and are turning to the adoption of performance management frameworks to strategize, analyze and implement effective sustainability initiatives.
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• Five Myths About Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
  Activity-based costing more accurately determines the actual costs of production and related services. The relatively higher accuracy and greater visibility achieved by ABC has helped organizations in service and manufacturing industries better understand and manage their indirect costs than was possible with traditional accounting methods. However, after proven success, ABC has recently come under fire. Robert Kaplan and others are promoting a new, time-driven methodology to presumably get strategic information faster and with less maintenance. Is this approach the panacea for reducing the efforts to calculate costs? This white paper takes an objective look at several questions and brings some new perspective to an issue that has been generating a lot of buzz but also involves a few misconceptions.
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