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Measuring Profit Performance Using SAS Profitability Management

Duration: 2.0 days
Course fee: $1,150
EPTO units: 2.2
CEUs: 1.2
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This course provides comprehensive training for SAS Profitability Management. The course covers key concepts and focuses on building a profitability model and generating dynamic reports. In addition to model design techniques and validation, the course covers advanced reporting, which includes identifying alternative SAS tools for analyzing SAS Profitability Management data. The course concludes with project implementation.

Who should attend

This Level III course is designed for end users and technical analysts, specifically those who want to be able to quickly calculate point profit for customer transactions using SAS Profitability Management. Course attendees are anticipated to represent a range of industries, including Telco, banking, and large remote retail companies.

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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should
  • have domain experience
  • be familiar with the LIBNAME statement.
No programming courses in Base SAS are required. Training in the BI Suite is an appropriate follow-up to this course.
Course Contents
What is SAS Profitability Management?
  • overview of SAS Profitability Management
  • viewing profitability reports
Understanding Dimensionality
  • overview of dimensions and cubes
  • constructing dimensional model structure
Building the Model
  • identifying the steps for building a model
  • creating a new model
  • adding transaction table groups to a model
  • loading transaction data
  • changing analysis settings
  • defining rules interactively
  • importing rules
  • creating associations manually
  • importing associations
  • calculating the model
Reporting
  • identifying the characteristics of SAS Profitability Management reports
  • describing the uses for the Report Layout and Report Hierarchy tables
  • creating reports
  • viewing reports
Model Design
  • identifying modeling guidelines
Validating and Updating the Model
  • validating SAS Profitability Management calculations
  • updating the model
Project Implementation
  • implementing the project
  • preparing the data
  • identifying supporting SAS applications for profitability reporting
Software
This course addresses SAS Profitability Management.
Course Materials
Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
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