Solutions

Business to business integration can help your electronics company connect and collaborate with your business partners. Share information beyond your enterprise with rapid, cost-effective business to business integration and management.

Are your inventory levels optimal? Is your inventory in the right places in the channel? Sharing synchronized, paperless and integrated processes with your supply chain partners can provide the visibility you need to monitor sales and implement precise inventory replenishment for maximum profitability.

Is your electronics company looking to manage more complex products and processes? Do you need to introduce quality products faster? IBM can help you turn complexity into competitive advantage. Collaborate more efficiently. Reuse product engineering and systems knowledge. Improve product and process quality.

Promote customer satisfaction and build new revenue streams through better contact center management. IBM can help your contact center agents maximize services capabilities and introduce new products. Our solutions for contact center management also enable tools and processes to streamline resolving customer inquiries.

Medical device manufacturers have many complex relationships with buyers and purchasing organizations. Contracts are time- and resource-intensive, resulting in poorly executed agreements and customer complaints. IBM can help you improve visibility and streamline your contract and order process for more efficient pricing.

Competition, pricing wars, customer segmentation and shrinking market windows place manufactures under enormous pressures. You need to produce faster, better and cheaper. Streamline the product lifecycle process. Reduce the need for physical prototypes. Create a virtual factory with digital manufacturing from IBM.

Your electronics business must acquire and retain customers in a competitive market. But loyalty is in short supply. IBM and SAP can help you compete with customer-focused strategies, processes and tools designed to help increase loyalty, revenue and profit.

Optimizing your supply chain can help your electronics company compete as a globally integrated enterprise. IBM can help you easily implement supply chain management processes and tools with service oriented architecture. Help eliminate waste from your supply chain with electronics value chain management from IBM.

Optimizing your supply chain for speed and flexibility can shorten product cycle times, enhance customer service and ultimately increase profitability and market share. IBM and SAP can help streamline your business allowing you to focus on your products, not your processes, so you can turn great ideas in to profits.

By integrating your product lifecycle management data and processes with other applications in the enterprise, you can provide easier access to consistent data from product development to manufacturing and after sales.

Do you have inconsistent field service quality levels? Are you seeking additional revenue and profit through better field services? IBM can help expand the frontier of what is possible when it comes to your field service performance.

Inventory management and control from IBM enables your electronics companies to effectively manage inventory levels. Our solution can help better align your supply chain with your business strategies. Affordable, easy to implement, use and maintain.

Are you looking to improve your marketing, sales and service business processes? From contact centers to field services and spare parts logistics, IBM helps electronics companies understand the evolving dynamics of their customer relationships to generate customer loyalty and help increase revenues.

The IBM Product Data Management (PDM) solution helps global enterprises bring together people, processes, content and systems to achieve competitive advantage. Streamline product development, while complying with regulatory requirements, by putting real-time process and data management in the hands of those who need it.

Product development management transformation can help electronics manufacturers speed innovation and improve success rates. IBM can help assess, develop and transform your product development management strategy to give you a competitive edge.

IBM Systems solution for BW accelerator from SAP is an easy-to-deploy, prepackaged solution for near real-time analytics. This solution can help you access and analyze large volumes of business data, providing quicker access to management information for better day-to-day tactical and strategic business decisions.

Advanced process control methodologies from IBM and Schneider Electric can help optimize your semiconductor process yields. Our advanced process control solution can help accelerate development and technology transfer into high-volume manufacturing though the implementation of high-speed near real-time arc detection.

In the electronics design chain, rapid innovation is the name of the game. Are product and component iterations taking too long? Are you missing product release dates? Are development cycles affecting your company's ability to compete? If so, the Integrated Mechanical Product Development solution from IBM can help.

Implement cutting-edge technologies in virtualization, automation and service management. Create a flexible, responsive, less expensive infrastructure that is easier to manage and upgrade. IBM IT Optimization for SAP® Business Suite helps deliver maximum value for IT investments.

Reduce ramp-up time for semiconductor manufacturing. Run multiple factories and associated supply chains more efficiently, and be more responsive to customers and business partners. IBM brings strategy, technology infrastructure and applications with near real-time diagnostics to help speed demand-based production for less.

Break through the challenges of the traditional mobile engineering environment—engineers tethered to a static framework. IBM and Intel have designed a mobile engineering environment based on years of research and technology innovation in their respective fields to provide an advanced customized offering for engineers.

Process management can help you create closed-loop processes with trading partners across your supply chain. Do you outsource manufacturing? Are new logistics models and global sourcing clouded your supply chain? Put a process management solution from IBM and E2open to work for you.

Move along a forward-looking path to Six Sigma quality. Integrate performance management, enabling your sales, marketing, manufacturing, inventory and financial departments to gain visibility across the enterprise. Our closed loop solution provides a single set of near real-time numbers for collaborative decision making.

How do you get more innovative products to market faster? Enable collaboration. Increase efficiency. Link design data across the organization. Streamlined PLM is the answer. IBM can help you implement the technology and processes to win in the increasingly competitive electronics marketplace.

Fixed IT costs. Difficulty managing and retrieving data. Lack of collaboration. These can be the unwanted side effects of PLM. Gain relief by tapping into industry-leading PLM capabilities on a per-usage basis. Increase product quality, improve market responsiveness and revenue—without large, upfront IT investments.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for electronics can provide visibility across your value chain by leveraging tags that emit radio signals. From manufacturing to delivery, RFID solutions from IBM can help you improve supply chain management, asset tracking as well as security and access control.

Gain a view of your entire business operations—from product development to manufacturing to service after the sale—with consistent data, regardless of where it resides. The flexibility of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help you extend the value of PLM from engineering to your core business processes.

Systems and software lifecycle management (SSLM) is becoming a key area as products and solutions involve greater levels of software, and as electrical and mechanical design become more interdependent. IBM can help you evaluate your current product development model and help identify areas for improvement.