Supply Chain Performance Management
Benefits and Value
IBM Cognos supply chain performance management software and performance applications deliver the complete range of business intelligence, enterprise planning, and analytics capabilities
Reporting, analysis, and business intelligence
IBM offers the most comprehensive business intelligence and reporting coverage
in the industry.
- Identify which processes and operations generate unfavorable variances and why.
- Identify under-performing suppliers.
- Reassess and optimize product mix for a specific region.
- Report on performance by department, employee, machine, customer, supplier, and operation.
- Automatically send email alerts to supply chain managers when a pre-determined business situation or unusual event occurs.
- Share information with key partners and suppliers through a BI extranet.
Learn more about IBM Cognos reporting, analysis, and business intelligence software.
Scorecarding
Drive effective supply chain management from your desktop.
- Monitor supply chain performance in terms of efficiency, utilization, quality, cost, and throughput.
- Identify variances in material usage, downtime, labor, and overhead by shift, operation, and supplier.
- Create and monitor key performance indicators, such as shipment performance, supply chain cycle time, inventory, quality, cost-to-serve, and supplier responsiveness.
Learn more about IBM Cognos scorecarding software.
Planning, forecasting, and consolidation
IBM Cognos planning and consolidation software improves performance across your
supply chain.
- Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems.
- Enable driver-based planning to streamline and focus efforts around increased throughput, changes in supply, or customer demands.
Learn more about IBM Cognos planning and consolidation software.
Supply Chain Analytics
IBM offers an analytics application that delivers hundreds of pre-built
reports, metrics, and connections to standard data sources. They help you
identify the business "leaks" that cost money.
- Monitor key performance metrics of your extended supply chain to maximize customer performance.
- Manage demand and supply plans to minimize inventory investment while achieving high levels of customer service.
- Use buyer and supplier performance metrics to consolidate spend and drive cost-effective purchasing performance.
- Understand yield across all plants or for specific operations.
Learn more about IBM Cognos Supply Chain Analytics.
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