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The analysis tools allow you to search the Benchmarking & Best Practices data base to research specific
supply chain issues. The three tools in the set are as follows:
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Search
The search tool identifies specific questions, reports, presentations or other resources on the VBB web
site that match keywords that you select.
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Searches are created using one or more keywords selected from a search definition web page.
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Searches return a list of all resources that match the keywords.
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Links on the return list allow you to go directly to an interview question, report or
presentation to initiate a query or download.
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The search is Google© like, except that only highly relevant responses are returned.
Filters
Filters are used by queries to narrow data requests to companies with specific characteristics.
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You may select up to 25 filter criteria to focus on operations that fit into a scenario
that you would like to investigate.
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You may save multiple sets of filters (i.e. scenarios). Any scenario can be
defined as the default.
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At least one set of filters should be established prior to initiating a query. The
system default is to search with no filters.
Query
The query tool searches the Benchmarking & Best Practices data base using user defined filters and
returns summarized results based on participant responses to online interviews.
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Queries focus on responses to individual questions in the online interviews.
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Results may include answer totals, averages, medians, low’s, high’s and quartiles, depending
on what might be appropriate for the question.
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Queries may be initiated from within the Search tool or from within the online interview by
clicking on a question number or letter.
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To protect the confidentiality of each participant’s data, queries only return results when
there are at least four companies in the group targeted by query filters.
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