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What-If Scenario Modeling

myDIALS provides interactive, real-time "What-if" scenario modeling and analysis. While analyzing current performance by drilling into a dial and expanding by a dimension or by drivers, you can specify a scenario to analyze. Immediately, myDIALS shows the resulting "roll-up" of that scenario and the impact on metrics being examined. This is very powerful for asking simple questions, such as:

• If our plant in Germany could deliver more production what would the overall production level be?
• If our office in Los Angeles could sell more baseballs, what would the resultant product sales mix for the USA be?

By combining the scenario analysis with the ability to drill into drivers, more complex questions can be asked, such as:

• What would be the impact on gross margin if we changed product mix?
• If we were able to reduce variable people costs how would that impact profit?

As shown in the following figure, asking one of these questions is as simple as selecting a dial in a drill tree, highlighting a bar or point of interest, and then specifying a new value or percentage change for that metric for that time period.

Scenarios can also be run on multiple points at once including future values. Using this powerful capability, you can determine which action or combination of actions will result in the optimal result.