Smarter Analytics

Industrial companies of all types must be highly efficient to meet demand, production and supply requirements, while carefully managing costs and resources. Whether in automotive, aerospace, defense, chemicals, petroleum, electronics or industrial products, companies can benefit from deeper insights into operations, market demand, inventory and performance.

• How can we improve visibility into raw materials and inventory levels throughout the entire supply chain?
• How can we more accurately forecast demand to improve inventory management?
• Which product features are most valuable to our customers, and which are not needed?
• What processes can we put into place to reduce operating costs and better project financial performance?
• How can we more accurately predict supply chain disruptions and maintenance needs to minimize their impact on our business?
• Can we reduce production downtime by predicting when maintenance will be needed?

IBM Smarter Analytics can reveal the insights you need to manage the complexity of global markets, supply chains and operations. By employing more agile business models in which decisions are based on a holistic view of enterprise and production information, your industrial organization can rapidly react to new opportunities and achieve a competitive advantage.

• Enhance supply chain planning and production operations, aligning the production of goods with strategic goals and forecasted demand.
• Combat obsolescence by building a steady stream of innovative products and services.
• Build a dynamic value chain and improve decision making with end-to-end supply chain visibility and integrated strategic planning.

Becker Underwood improved forecast accuracy by 10 - 15 percent, and achieved a 383 percent return on investment within just four months by implementing a business analytics solution for global business intelligence, planning and financial consolidation.

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Fiat Group improved customer retention by seven percent and increased the response rate to marketing campaigns by 15 to 20 percent with a solution that analyzes data and creates models to predict customer behavior and enhance customer relationships.

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JM Family Enterprises enhanced customer service, increased call center productivity, improved data quality and compliance efforts, and gained the ability to monitor process performance metrics with an advanced case management solution.

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BodyMedia developed a first-of-its-kind personalized feedback system based on an intelligent decision management solution that provides actionable recommendations to individuals, helping them improve weight-loss success.

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ATK enabled faster, more informed decision making with an innovative management information dashboard that integrates traditional business and manufacturing data with external sources such as media content, social sentiment and industry chat forums.

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CHT/BEZEMA enabled uniform sales reporting, planning and group consolidation for 22 worldwide companies, giving sales and financial departments access to exact financial figures for all of the companies—quickly and easily.

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