Collaborative supply chain management from IBM

The goal

Improve collaboration and customer satisfaction

The collaborative supply chain management solution from IBM helps lower inventory and supply chain costs by enabling your trading partners visibility to critical supply chain data. You will also be able to improve service and drive sales by aligning your supply plans with customer demand.

The advantage

Why IBM?

We know firsthand the competitive advantage the collaborative supply chain management solution from IBM provides because we use it to drive our own e-business. IBM can help you succeed with:

• Experience — our own supply chain transformation enables IBM to communicate efficiently with over 24,000 suppliers and save over US$377 million.
• Skills — we have over 150,000 service professionals in 160 countries, with over 20,000 professionals experienced in improving client effectiveness.
• Strategic relationships — we work with a breadth of supportive associates, business partners and application vendors that deliver value to our solutions.

The benefits

Supply chain alignment

The collaborative supply chain management solution from IBM can help energize your extended supply chain through automated processes and the dynamic exchange of data between the associates and trading partners that impact your business.

This solution and the IBM e-business on demand™ initiative supports integrated technologies, tools and processes so your business can respond immediately to market changes and evolve dynamically.

Realize rapid and tangible benefits through the collaborative supply chain management solution from IBM:

• Reduce inventory while maintaining service levels.
• Automate inventory processes and avoid lost sales.
• Increase customer satisfaction by stocking the right products.
• Reduce cycle time by optimizing logistics to synchronize stock, price and availability.

The ROI

Reduce costs, improve service

The collaborative supply chain management solution from IBM can help your company achieve measurable bottom-line savings. With this solution you can reduce:

• Out of stocks errors to increase revenues by up to 10%.
• Inventory levels by up to 40%.
• Obsolescence expense by up to 50%.
• Transportation and expediting costs by up to 20%.

This solution also helps increase customer satisfaction and drive sales by having the right products, in the right store, at the right price.