IBM® Decision Optimization helps businesses become more customer-centric by automating complex decisions and trade-offs about limited resources so that they can more easily:

• Align business models with customer needs to increase business effectiveness and deployment speed of enterprise planning and scheduling decisions.
• Configure integrated solutions to address challenges at each stage of the commerce lifecycle – buy, market, sell, service – and their interrelationships.
• Leverage Advanced Analytics and Decision Optimization to transform massive data into fact-based decisions.
• Leverage IT investments to allocate limited resources to maximize value through planning and scheduling processes that achieve the best possible performance and customer experience.

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Why IBM for Decision Optimization?

IBM Decision Optimization provides a customer entry point into Smarter Commerce by bridging the gap between analytics and execution enabling them to:

• Maximize return on existing assets
• Identify opportunities for competitive advantage
• Incrementally transform operations to focus on the customer

Decision Optimization portfolio consists of both configurable solutions and out-of-the-box applications for solving complex production, supply chain, and planning and scheduling challenges to gain competitive advantage through optimal resource use.

• Optimization Toolkits
• Configurable Platforms
• Mainframe Solutions
• Supply Chain Optimization

IBM Decision Optimization amplifies every phase of the commerce cycle by helping customers:

• Take the guesswork out of decision making by transforming ‘big data’ insights into prescribed actions through advanced analytics and optimization.
• Address challenges at every stage of the commerce lifecycle – buy, market, sell, service – by incrementally deploying optimization-based business applications as needed.
• Facilitate cross-organization collaboration for rapid responsiveness to emerging market trends and/or changes in product or service demand through configurable analytic decision support applications in a framework environment.
• Enhance responsiveness and maintain competitive differentiation by applying tailored analytic solutions to your unique business models.
• Efficiently meet demand for products and services by automating and streamlining decisions to optimize the global value chain.
• Generate continuous ROI through customer centric, end-to-end, and cross-functional organizational optimization across all business processes.

Business Applications

• Planning and Scheduling

  Allocate resources, assign people, schedule processes…

• Routing and Distribution

  Locate factories and warehouses, dispatch vehicles, pick routes…

• Inventory Management

  Maintain the right amount at the right place.

• Pricing and Revenue Management

  Sell the right products to the right customer at the right time for the right price.