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Supply chain visibility solution for electronics
Use insight to make better decisions faster
Many global electronics companies face a dilemma: how to closely control operational execution across a geographically dispersed supply chain. Being competitive in today's economy requires competing on a global level, thus building extended supply chains with a large number of suppliers and customers. However, in the face of increased complexity, very few companies possess the tools to monitor their extended supply chains, proactively analyze exceptions and make appropriate course corrections. More than ever, today's supply chains need to get smarter and leverage the terabytes of information at their disposal to optimize their planning decisions and reduce exposure to risks.
Improve visibility and coordination throughout your business
The supply chain visibility solution from IBM can help your electronics organization become more instrumented by leveraging advanced sensors and tracking and tracing technologies to provide a constant stream of rich data that enables smart decision making across the entire supply chain.
Take advantage of collaboration standards and visibility tools to become interconnected with your supply chain partners. Interconnectedness also allows for dynamic event management and exception handling so your organization can concurrently optimize operations.
In addition, your business can use the intelligence generated through the supply chain to predict and dynamically react to changes with advanced algorithms and analytics. Quickly evaluate numerous scenarios looking for optimal setups that maximize customer service while minimizing costs.
Achieve flexibility by integrating processes and systems
The supply chain visibility solution for electronics can help you:
- Gain higher revenue by enhancing customer service and expediting turnaround time with access to up-to-date information.
- Capture market opportunities and avoid downside risks with better analytics.
- Speed decision making and response times with real-time information.
- Experience shorter customer order and supplier lead times with greater insight into supply and demand.
- Increase productivity and realize stable production rates by automating transactions and promoting efficient processes.
- Reduce inventory, obsolescence and freight costs with tighter processes.
- Gain greater control of your business, while mitigating risk, as a result of visibility and analysis.
- Centralized visibility and control of the end-to-end supply chain into a synchronized and consolidated portal view.
- Sense and respond capabilities for awareness of sudden events or shifts in supply, production, demand or logistics.
- Management of events by exception across your multitiered supply chain.
- A portal for Web-based collaboration internally and with external business partners.
- A service oriented architecture (SOA) platform for rapid integration and deployment.
The tools to help you become agile, responsive and integrated
IBM is uniquely qualified to help customers achieve a more flexible, efficient and cost-effective supply chain by leveraging proven best practices from our own widely respected Integrated Supply Chain (ISC). At the heart of the supply chain visibility solution is the virtual command center, which includes:
