data mapping

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Millions of Lines of Data Involved in Getting Food on the Table

by Stacy Jackson The amount of data involved in moving food from farm to fork is overwhelming. Even narrowing the focus to data related to foodservice trade promotion management still leaves millions and millions of data to contend with at any given moment. When we take it down to just the universe of Answers Systems’ client data, it’s still quite a bit of information that must be dealt with in order to pay rebates, perform contract management functions, and analyze trade promotion spending. Answers Systems handles incoming claim data for manufacturers and operators at an average of over 5 million lines per...

posted @ Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:47 PM | Feedback (0)

Data Management and Acquisition in Foodservice Trade Promotion Management

Posted by Stacy Jackson Through our years of experience in helping clients manage their Data Acquisition & Data Management in trade promotion management, we've identified the following potential pain points that foodservice manufacturers face: * Slow (or NO) submission of claims * Claim information scattered throughout the organization * Lack of internal capability to receive electronic claims * Data mapping of incoming claims * Matching claims to contracts * N

posted @ Monday, October 19, 2009 7:58 PM | Feedback (0)

Data Mapping Stats - Music to My Ears

Posted by Stacy Jackson Do you ever get songs stuck in your head? I do. Today’s song is “Surf City” by Jan & Dean. “Two girls for every boy” and “I’m going to Surf City where it’s two to one. Yeah, I’m going to Surf City. Gonna have some fun.” It’s kind of annoying, yet it got me to thinking about ratios. Surf City apparently had a 2:1 ratio of girls to boys. I started wondering what kind of ratios I might find in the quarterly report I received regarding our data mapping for our clients' tra

posted @ Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:16 PM | Feedback (0)

Data Mapping: Music to My Ears!

Do you ever get songs stuck in your head? I do. Today’s song is “Surf City” by Jan & Dean. “Two girls for every boy” and “I’m going to Surf City where it’s two to one. Yeah, I’m going to Surf City. Gonna have some fun.” It’s kind of annoying, yet it got me to thinking about ratios. Surf City apparently had a 2:1 ratio of girls to boys. I started wondering what kind of ratios I might find in the quarterly report I received regarding our data mapping. Answers Systems tracks quite a bit of data.

posted @ Monday, July 14, 2008 12:00 AM | Feedback (0)