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Collaborate with retailers. Focus on consumers. Drive growth.
Do you have efficient relationships with your retailers? Can you respond to changing customer needs, on demand? How effective is your growth strategy? Today's environment demands a laser focus on your customers and consumers. IBM and SAP deliver focused solutions to enable and support; a consumer driven supply chain, so you can respond quickly to consumer, market and competitor changes; trade promotion management to drive and evaluate product and program performance success; and new product development and introduction so you can develop products faster, and help shorten time to first revenue.

IBM and SAP solutions for consumer products

 
Business intelligence solution from IBM and SAP
A business intelligence solution from IBM and SAP can help companies quickly make critical business decisions—making for an agile company with information at its fingertips. Use information to innovate. Connect with customers and suppliers. Gain a competitive edge.
 
Customer relationship management from IBM and SAP
Sustaining customer relationships and identifying new markets is integral to your success. How can you control costs and inspire customer loyalty? IBM and SAP can provide the applications, best practices and industry expertise you need to provide personalized service, access to information and integration across channels.
 
Document compliance and retention from IBM and SAP
Is your records retention and document retrieval process compliant with the rigid standards facing corporate America? While many companies offer basic solutions to address Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, few offer complete applications designed from the ground up. Let IBM develop a solution to help you stay compliant.
 
Enterprise resource planning from IBM and SAP
Are you prepared for escalated customer expectations and increased industry complexity? IBM and SAP can help you avoid concerns of lower profit margins and higher employee churn. Regain control of your enterprise, increasing efficiency and profitability.
 
IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution
Effective inventory management is critical to helping your business compete in a global marketplace. Improve customer service, cash flow and profit margins while meeting the challenges of product proliferation, shorter lifecycles and demand uncertainty. IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution (DIOS) can help.
 
IBM Full Economy Model for SAP
Lower your total cost of ownership. Create consistency in your SAP environment. Simplify complex and redundant applications. IBM has aligned its existing SAP consulting, application, infrastructure, services, support and maintenance offerings under one umbrella—the IBM Full Economy Model for SAP.
 
IBM System p5 Solution Edition Express for SAP ERP
With features previously only available to large enterprises, now small and mid-sized enterprises can implement SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) on a robust IBM infrastructure. Provide virtual real-time access to tools, applications and information. All on a flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure.
 
IBM System p5 Solution Edition for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
Are you looking for high performance from a scalable business intelligence solution? Our solution provides faster, deeper and broader business analytics on data collected from heterogeneous environments. It satisfies the diverse needs of end users, senior management and IT professionals.
 
IBM System z9 solution for SAP applications
Select IBM System z9™ servers as a platform for integration to help maintain high availability, reduce complexity in the data center and drive down the cost of ownership for your SAP system environment. Our solution can help you achieve better SAP system management, higher business resilience, improved security and reduced costs.
 
IBM Systems solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator
IBM Systems solution for BI 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.
 
IBM Tivoli availability center for SAP
Organizations today are investing more than ever in IT infrastructure to help improve their business. As systems complexity grows and costs continue to rise, finding better ways to manage existing systems is critical. IBM and SAP can help you contain costs and improve the overall operation of your SAP system.
 
IT Optimization for SAP Business Suite
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.
 
New product development and introduction from IBM and SAP
Experiencing competitive pressures due to technology advancements, deregulation, global expansion or exploding product variety? IBM and SAP have teamed up to help you meet those challenges head on. Reduce time to first revenue. And analyze data for better insight into successful development of new product and service ideas.
 
SOA solutions for consumer products from IBM and SAP
Innovation and growth are vital to consumer products companies. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help. IBM and SAP are developing composite applications, based on SOA, which address key industry pain points by building flexibility and best of breed functionality into systems and processes.
 
Supplier relationship management from IBM and SAP
Intelligently and flexibly manage procurement operations. IBM and SAP offer fresh ideas to unlock business value and promote sustainable financial advantage. By streamlining communication processes you can make more informed, timely decisions and cost-effectively execute supply management, sourcing and procurement.
 
Supply chain management from IBM and SAP
Intelligently and flexibly manage supply chain and procurement operations. IBM and SAP offer fresh ideas to unlock business value and promote sustainable financial advantage. Optimize business processes to make more informed, timely decisions and cost-effectively execute supply management, sourcing and procurement.
 
Trade promotion management from IBM and SAP
Trade promotions—a big line item in your budget? And are you getting the best return for that spending? IBM and SAP offer innovative thinking and tangible solutions to help you efficiently capture and measure promotions.
 


Success stories
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Whirlpool® improves information sharing and decision making by leveraging the power of SAP® and IBM®
Resources
IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution - Certified for SAP NetWeaver  
Extracting maximum value from SAP applications using the IBM Full Economy Model  
Brochure: Trade promotion management  
New product development and introduction: Consumer products companies need to move boldly forward  
Executive message
Executive message from Bill Gilmour, IBM Consumer Products General Manager
More information
IBM Consumer Products Site
SAP Consumer Products page