Supply Chain Visibility Solution

Whether your company has 100 or 10,000 employees, you're certain to be aware of the critical importance of supply chain visibility. And like the majority of manufacturing company respondents surveyed in a recent independent study, you're probably also dissatisfied with your supply chain visibility. In most cases, the disapproval is caused by a reliance on spreadsheets and in-house applications for business intelligence (BI). One of the study's recommendations for this dissatisfaction is business intelligence technology designed to support the supply chain process for improved inventory visibility, commodity spending, and customer profitability. A BI solution can provide data warehouses, database schemas, metadata, analytical processing models, reports, scorecards, and dashboards, among other features, to improve supply chain visibility. The benefits of an advanced, comprehensive, scalable Cognos BI solution surpass the simple provision of tools, and allow you to sharpen forecast accuracy, reduce costs, cut down on inventory levels, and understand the drivers of customer demands—all of which are necessary for a true, effective supply chain visibility solution.

Cognos has the Expertise for a True Supply Chain Visibility Solution

The list of Cognos manufacturing clients who have implemented a supply chain visibility solution reads like the 'who's who' of the successful manufacturing world. With Cognos supply chain visibility technology in place, major manufacturing companies have been able to cultivate demand planning, manage customers better, reduce inventory and costs, and expand forecasting abilities. The Cognos expertise has helped these customers to achieve not just superior supply chain visibility, but the correlation of processes to corporate performance goals, and the application of operational metrics to continuous process improvement.

Cognos Goes Beyond Supply Chain Visibility

Most companies understand the strategic importance of supply chain BI, but not necessarily how it can help make the whole company more effective. Instead of multiple, overlapping systems, the Cognos product suite handles the entire BI spectrum, starting with simplifying data integration, through development of metrics, key performance indicators, and multifactor analysis, to real-time data updates that produce advanced reporting, dashboards, and alert notifications. The more mature a corporation is, the more it understands the need to integrate supply chain visibility with financial and forecast data. And this is where Cognos shines. The suite of Cognos products and our supply chain experts can expand your supply chain management in scope to enhance the coordination of new product introduction, supplier performance, and financial metrics, helping the corporation to meet the goal of providing better customer services with fewer resources. And a bonus business result of supply chain BI from Cognos is the flexibility to meet changes in customer demand easily and promptly.

Learn more about the Cognos solution for supply chain visibility here.