Supply chain management - Supply chain planning services

In an on demand world, companies can no longer afford uncoordinated processes, scattered information or a lack of visibility across the supply chain.

IBM Supply Chain Planning Services is designed to address emerging demands with an integrated approach to the process, organization and technology elements that impact inventory levels, obsolescence and condensed product flow-through. Our services can help you optimize your supply chain by integrating internal functions and facilitating collaboration with key business partners (both customers and suppliers), thereby helping to enable you to balance demand and supply, and to optimize customer service and inventory levels by continuously planning, in real time, across organizational boundaries.

You can achieve dramatic results with Supply Chain Planning Services.You can potentially:

• Reduce response time to demand changes (by more than 50 percent) 
• Increase supplier involvement (up to 81 percent within one year) 
• Reduce time spent on non-value add activities by procurement personnel (50 to 75 percent) 
• Reduce inventory (raw, work in progress, finished goods) by 10 to 15 percent 
• Lower logistics expenses (by 3 to 4 percent) 
• Increase sales (by 5 to 20 percent) 
• Enhance customer service (for example, with improved fill rates)

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