The industrial sector is facing a perfect storm when it comes to their supply chains: an outdated reliance on manual processes, raw materials demand that will likely outpace supply, as well as potential resource constraints. This is not only impacting the sector’s ability to meet consumer expectations by delivering the products customers need when they need them. Supply chain woes are also impacting the speed and efficiency with which this equipment-heavy industry can repair vital machinery. Delays in repairs can often mean supply chain disruptions. Pair all of this with the difficulty of meeting customer expectations that deliver a superior customer experience, while maximizing profitability, and it can seem like the industrial sector is facing an impossible task.
According to research and surveys from Advanced Tech, Forbes, McKinsey, and S&P Global:
Automation will enable organizations to identify and resolve critical supply chain issues faster with end-to-end visibility, advanced analytics and actionable workflows. By extending process intelligence and execution, supply chains become more adaptive, responsive and predictive.
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By ensuring that you know not only which maintenance parts are in stock, but at what levels, and in which locations, industrial firms can prevent production shut-downs (and the subsequent impact on profitability). As an added benefit, this can reduce working capital tied up to carrying high M&R part inventory levels.
Increase on-time delivery performance and customer satisfaction by managing and prioritizing orders based on inventory.
Purpose matters to consumers and drives profitability. The right partner can help organizations in the industrial sector understand how to reduce waste, improve transparency, and work with suppliers to ensure sustainable practices throughout the supply chain—all while keeping looming SEC regulations on climate risk reporting top-of-mind.
IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising can help balance customer promises with profitability by executing orders with minimum errors to maximize profits and customer satisfaction. Ensuring improved performance by proving out fulfillment scenarios prior to go-live. Intelligently balancing omnichannel fulfillment costs against service to protect margins. The possibilities? Lower fulfillment shipping costs and improved customer satisfaction.
IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising is a part of the Sterling Order Management which earned multiple market leadership awards as recognized by G2 (link resides outside ibm.com), including 1st in OMS Spring 2023 Report.
IBM MRO IO can reduce unplanned downtime by ensuring on-site availability of critical materials and spares to keep round-the-clock operations running. Additionally, learn how to cut MRO inventory-related costs by eliminating inefficiencies, sharing critical spares across geographical regions, and reducing non-essential parts inventory.
All of this can lead to reduction in asset downtime, maintenance budget savings, reduction in inventory costs, and an increase in service levels. See IBM MRO IO in action by reading about how Shell and IBM (link resides outside ibm.com) jointly developed and launched Oren, a global B2B mining services marketplace platform to gain more productivity in the $190 billion mining industry.
To understand how industrial firms can identify and resolve critical supply chain issues faster with end-to-end visibility, advanced analytics and actionable workflows, explore the IBM Control Tower. You will learn how the IBM Control Tower:
Bringing resilient and sustainable supply chains to life requires a consulting partner with deep ERP expertise, and knowledge of how AI, automation, IoT, blockchain, and weather combine to improve accuracy and productivity, while also reducing IT complexity, resource consumption and costs.
IBM Consulting is a global leader in supply chain consulting with a global ecosystem of
partnerships, proprietary access to IBM’s own technology, research and Expert Labs. Our industry expertise, end-to-end approach from strategy to implementation, and dedicated sustainability practice, ensures your supply chain can adapt to today’s challenges and prepare for future opportunities, while minimizing risks, reducing costs, and driving continuous improvement in both environmental and social performance.
IBM Consulting helps the world’s leading Industrial Products companies like CEMEX design and build intelligent, resilient and sustainable supply chains that empower each partner in the supply chain with the transparency and insights to act in service to the end customer.
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