IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising

Improve profitability through contextual, transparent and accurate delivery estimates

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Enhance shopper experiences from discovery to delivery

Preserve brand trust by providing shoppers with greater certainty, choice and transparency across their buying journey. IBM Sterling® Intelligent Promising empowers retailers to improve digital conversions, real-time global inventory visibility and in-store sales while increasing omnichannel profitability.

Strengthen shopper loyalty

Confidently deliver choice and transparency to every shopper throughout the buying journey.

Manage accurate promises

Increase digital conversions by presenting precise promise dates on the PLP and PDP and during checkout.

Maximize inventory productivity

Reduce order cancellations and optimize inventory by dynamically providing shoppers with enterprise-wide inventory views.

Employ fulfillment optimization

Balance predefined business rules with real cost drivers to make the best fulfillment decisions for business outcomes, optimizing across thousands of permutations in milliseconds.

Harness artificial intelligence

Use AI-powered sales and demand data to recommend sourcing decisions based on customer choice or cost efficiencies.

Increase omnichannel profitability

Drive higher conversions and in-store sales with accurate promise dates, choice in delivery or pickup, upsell of related products and intelligently reduce markdowns and stockouts with machine learning.

Why choose IBM?

1%–3%

increase in online sales with estimated arrival date across product list pages (PLP) and product detail pages (PDP).1

3%–7%

reduction in overall inventory costs by avoiding costs associated with excess inventory and by reducing investment in inventory working capital.1

6%–12%

reduction in online order fulfillment shipping costs by optimizing sourcing decisions and reducing split shipments.1

Features

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Promising

Improve retail conversion rates, reduce shopping cart abandonment and drive sales with a seamless, efficient omnichannel experience.

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Inventory Visibility

Deliver on business goals and customer expectations with cloud-based inventory visibility.

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Optimizer

Minimize total cost-to-serve by taking advantage of cognitive intelligence.

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A woman with a smart phone and a laptop
Promising

Improve retail conversion rates, reduce shopping cart abandonment and drive sales with a seamless, efficient omnichannel experience.

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Worker in a Warehouse Scanning Inventory
Inventory Visibility

Deliver on business goals and customer expectations with cloud-based inventory visibility.

Explore Inventory Visibility
Screenshot of how IBM Sterling Fulfillment Optimizer works
Optimizer

Minimize total cost-to-serve by taking advantage of cognitive intelligence.

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Case studies

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Big Lots

See how Big Lots enhanced the shopper experience from Discovery to Delivery by leveraging IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising.

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Pandora

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Take the next step

Book a consultation with an IBM expert to see how your organization can benefit from IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising or deploy with help from our IBM Business Partners.

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Footnotes

1Performance Data and Benchmarking Program, IBM Institute for Business Value, 2023.