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Analysis Tools


The analysis tools allow you to search the Benchmarking & Best Practices data base to research specific supply chain issues.  The three tools in the set are as follows:
Search
The search tool identifies specific questions, reports, presentations or other resources on the VBB web site that match keywords that you select.
  • Searches are created using one or more keywords selected from a search definition web page.
  • Searches return a list of all resources that match the keywords.
  • Links on the return list allow you to go directly to an interview question, report or presentation to initiate a query or download.
  • The search is Google© like, except that only highly relevant responses are returned.

Filters
Filters are used by queries to narrow data requests to companies with specific characteristics.
  • You may select up to 25 filter criteria to focus on operations that fit into a scenario that you would like to investigate.
  • You may save multiple sets of filters (i.e. scenarios).  Any scenario can be defined as the default.
  • At least one set of filters should be established prior to initiating a query.  The system default is to search with no filters.

Query
The query tool searches the Benchmarking & Best Practices data base using user defined filters and returns summarized results based on participant responses to online interviews.
  • Queries focus on responses to individual questions in the online interviews.
  • Results may include answer totals, averages, medians, low’s, high’s and quartiles, depending on what might be appropriate for the question.
  • Queries may be initiated from within the Search tool or from within the online interview by clicking on a question number or letter.
  • To protect the confidentiality of each participant’s data, queries only return results when there are at least four companies in the group targeted by query filters.
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