Vendor:	AKS-Labs
	Platform:	Windows 98, XP, Vista
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	Price:	$60.00 USD
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The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system that is used extensively in business and industry, government, and nonprofit organizations worldwide to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organization performance against strategic goals. AKS-Labs is a provider of software solutions that simplify the development of balanced scorecards with their product Inventory and Warehousing Scorecard for Excel.

Business professionals lack essential information about real-life metrics and information on how to build actual scorecard, which supports weights and scores, which allows calculating the performance values. This software is a Balanced Scorecard design toolkit that will provide you the information you need to make the correct decisions.

Measuring business performance with Balanced Scorecard concept

Balanced Scorecard concept is about measure and control.

• The first step is to determine the goal of Balanced Scorecard: it should help to measure and control the performance of business unit;
• The next step is to assign a target performance values and develop a plan to archive the target results;
• The final step is controlling the performance, re-thinking business and separate business processes

Balanced Scorecard must be a document packed with performance information. That’s why it is the best way to share management and business goal ideas with colleagues.

Designing the company’s own supply chain and inventory metrics portfolio is a difficult challenge for most organizations. The specific characteristics of the business to some extent form the basis for the particular set of metrics that make sense for the organization. Inventory and Warehousing Scorecard for Excel simplifies these issues and makes it easier to develop the right scorecard for your business.

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Features

Balanced Scorecard Designer has a plain, easy to use interface, which provides user with:

• Possibility to create scorecard, e.g. create categories, goals;
• Balancing function, e.g. lets user specify relative weights;
• Time Points, allows to specify weight, scorecard, mix/max and other values specific for certain date.
• Performance measurement and calculation functions, e.g. calculates the performance within category and total performance;
• Results of work can be exported into easy readable html report with charts.
• The results of design can be saved into BSC native format (.bsc file type) or exported to MS Excel for further usage. Export feature is very important as Balanced Scorecard exported to MS Excel can be used to connect the data from company ERP system with performance measurement. Starting version 1.3 exporting is also available with command line interface.

Balanced Scorecard Designer functions in details

When you will run the Balanced Scorecard Designer the default project will be opened. You will be able to start with design process immediately.

Using toolbar buttons, you will be able to add more categories and goals, move items or run balancing function. Also, with tool bar “Report” button you will be able to export results into MS Excel file.

The special toolbar was designed to manage with time points. With time points user can specify different performance and weight values for different dates.

In Balanced Scorecard Designer you will work with strategy tree. The strategy tree includes:

• Root element. It has the same name as your Balanced Scorecard project. If you need to change project name, please, choose “Properties” option in File menu.
• Category elements. These elements are containers for goal elements.
• Goal element, also called metric or performance indicator, is an item with name (for instance “Response Time”), relative weights on 1..10 scale and optimization direction.

You can click on any item (Category or Goal) and you will see the information about this item below. The information includes:

• The name of category or goal;
• The relative weight of category or goal;
• The description of category or goal;

Export

Balanced Scorecard can be exported into Excel file or to advanced HTML report. The Advanced HTML Report includes performance information for various data points covered by the scorecard, also, users will find there data tables with information about values’ changes for indicators. HTML report is a great way to share Balanced Scorecard with others. There are 3 types of HTML reports with different level of details.

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