ERPSim Analysis & Visualization Project Team Written Analysis Requirements

ERPSim Analysis & Visualization Project

Team Written Analysis Requirements

This assignment apply the five-step decision process utilized by managers to make a variety of decisions. This process has been introduced in the course. It becomes an underlying theme of the course as it is applied to a number of types of decisions throughout the course. The five steps include (1) identify the problem and uncertainties, (2) obtain information, (3) make predictions about the future, (4) make decisions by choosing among alternatives, and (5) implement the decision. With the emphasis on the five-step decision process, material relating to the problem-solving, scorekeeping, and attention-directing roles of the management accountant are streamlined.

Your team will

1) Identify the Key Performance Indicators (KPI, such as sales growth, gross margin, net margin), and evaluate your team’s performance in the ERPSim advanced game played (from Dec 3 to Dec 5) using those KPI.

2) Clearly identify 2 critical and not-yet-resolved problems in revenue generation and costs control you will investigate and report about (use visualization to demonstrate it). Make sure you demonstrate the relationship between these problems and your team’s KPI.

3) Identify two plausible alternative explanations/hypothesis of your problem.

4) Apply data analytics & visualizations to your 2 explanations, and make conclusion about your analysis.

5) Effectively communicate your analysis results and make recommendations.

The minimum requirements for visualizations are:

1) choosing appropriate metrics for performance measurement.

2) creating visualization(s) on two or more linked data sets.

3) applying basic analytical methods: aggregations, filter, sort, rank & conditional formatting.

4) meaningful slicing and dicing the data for data analysis (show each slicing/dicing in a separate chart).

5) displaying multiple variables on the same chart.