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Supplier management for parts quality solution from IBM
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| Better collaboration for a better quality product
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Supplier management has become very complex as automotive companies increasingly outsource their manufacturing to strategic partners across the globe. It can take weeks for a finished product to reach an assembly line from a supplier on the opposite side of the world. In addition, many of these manufacturers have streamlined their supply chains and implemented lean inventory techniques. As a result, any issue in supplier quality can quickly result in stock outs. The supplier management for parts quality solution from IBM can help.
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| IBM is fluent in quality
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IBM is a leading think tank in the automotive industry, with solutions that center on improving supplier management among other issues. We leverage the strength of our research team to deliver leading-edge, comprehensive solutions that include analytics to help improve business processes, addressing the key issues of cost, time and quality in supplier-delivered parts.
- IBM and our IBM Business Partners have strong global reach from Stuttgart to Detroit to Tokyo and the ability to deliver virtually anywhere with high quality and speed.
- We have more than 25 years of automotive industry experience and a worldwide network of more than 2,500 automotive experts.
- IBM established automotive centers of design innovation in France and the U.S. to showcase many of our automotive solutions, including supplier management.
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| Complete communication for quality
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The supplier management for parts quality solution from IBM brings together necessary partners to address your complex manufacturing business issues with central project management to ensure coordination and speed to market. We can help you:
- Reduce working capital through better use of equipment.
- Improve operating margins by avoiding rework and warranty costs.
- Optimize your supply chain network by improving supplier management.
- Improve time to market through better throughput and higher turns.
- Achieve more responsiveness to customer changes and market demands.
- Deliver higher product quality for enhanced customer loyalty.
- Lower warranty costs and cost of compliance by identifying problems earlier and being able to act on root causes.
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| Efficient development hits the road with IBM
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A leading U.S. automaker needed to be able to sense everything from shifting customer preferences to changes in shipment dates, and have the built-in means to respond dynamically. But this required flexible systems and processes integrated from end to end. The automaker engaged IBM to design and build an integrated infrastructure solution to provide a standardized, "ready-made" environment for developing, deploying and running applications.
IBM leveraged the strength of our research team to deliver a leading-edge, comprehensive solution that included high levels of analytics to help improve business processes that address the key issues of cost, time and quality in supplier delivered parts. This will help lead to better customer service and higher customer retention.
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| Find the value in quality
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There are several barriers to service excellence and poor supplier management tops the list. Therefore, you need to be creative and flexible with your supplier relationships to achieve a better return on investment. That flexibility can help earn your enterprise:
- Improvements in pre-production quality planning based on analytics and past history.
- Improved efficiencies and accuracy of decisions on parts-risking.
- Predictive analysis of vehicle program costs and risks before mass production.
- Reduced shipping costs with foreseeable part inventories in need of restocking.
- Lower warranty costs and cost of compliance to improve quality and brand image.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM automotive specialist.
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