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IBM Case Study: Wander

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Overview Wander's objective was to obtain a profitability calculation for each individual customer and improve the accuracy of its sales planning. It also aimed to improve the planning of brand contributions, introduce a common planning and monitoring tool for brand and market investments, integrate the key account manager into the planning process, and provide an overview of the planning workflow. Wander deployed IBM Cognos Planning.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Strategic Planning

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