ESTABLISH SALES REP METRICS FOR APPLIANCE MANUFACTURER
Capability: Econometric Time Series Analytics
Axiom Tools: Time Series Signal Decomposition Data Mining Analytics
Business Objective
Identify economic components to isolate over/under performing wholesale regional distribution markets
Improve overall retail sales channel performance
Strategy
Extract regional consumer economic data to define spending for household goods from external sources (i.e. Housing and Urban Development, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census)
Perform time series analytics against wholesale sales data to isolate seasonal, cyclic and trend components in all U.S. regions
Correlate client sales performance against external regional wholesale sales and economic data
Generate detrended wholesale models to isolate over/under performing regional markets
Results
Defined regional economic impact on sales of appliances by adjusting sales quotas and regional boundaries
Implemented new regional forecasting model to include econometric variables