Supply Chain
Overview

Successful organizations use IBM Cognos performance management software and analytics to gain comprehensive visibility into their supply chain.

IBM Cognos software delivers the key capabilities to help you effectively manage materials, production, and suppliers across the supply chain:

Visibility

• Monitor performance across processes, products, or suppliers, and drill through to the transaction details when required.
• Identify key metrics and receive alerts when performance is off-track so you can make immediate corrections.
• Read about the U.S. Coast Guard’s award-winning Aviation Logistics Management Information System project, which has provided $2.4 million in annual savings from improved parts forecasting and availability.

Predictability

• Through regular reporting and analysis, proactively identify events, trends, or other conditions that can lead to performance problems.
• Analyze operational trends and project them forward.
• Take pre-emptive action to prevent inventory shortfalls and delays.

Complete Information

• Consolidate data across the organization to provide complete and consistent information for actionable analysis.
• Distribute reports, analysis, and other information through a centralized portal or extranet.
• Receive timely notification of events, such as late supplier delivery or production stoppages.

Global Optimization

• Gain insight into cause-and-effect relationships to understand the impact of decisions up and down the line.
• IBM Cognos software, provides multilingual and multi-currency support as well as proven scalability to support deployments that span countries, languages, currencies, and user groups.

Additional Resources:

Overcoming Barriers to Supply Chain Performance

White Paper

Supply chain performance management can deliver what you need: complete visibility into key processes across your entire extended supply chain.

Supply Chain Business Intelligence: Adoption, Use and Practices

White Paper

This report is the culmination of a recent survey by Ventana Research. Find out what you should expect from a truly effective supply chain performance management solution.

Supply Chain Performance Management

Online Demo

Discover how to access information across your extended supply chain and use it more effectively.

Fiskars Brands: Building a market-leading supply chain

Podcast

Discover how a leading CPG company is using IBM to gain competitive advantage.

7 S&OP Reports Every Manufacturing Executive Needs

White Paper

Take a closer look at the top reports and dashboards from the IBM Cognos S&OP Performance Blueprint, which helps manufacturers drive their S&OP process, identify changes in customer demand and supply plans, and simulate the impact of demand, supply, inventory and operating cost performance on financial statements.

Seven 7 Reports Every Supply Chain Executive Needs

White Paper

Learn how to improve your supply chain management strategy by asking the right questions.

Manufacturing Performance Management at Mueller

Podcast

Find out how Mueller, Inc. uses IBM Cognos solutions to save time and money, and why they won a Balanced Scorecard award for their implementation.

Building Success, One Set at a Time: Performance Management at Mueller

Case Study

Find out how Mueller, Inc. uses IBM Cognos solutions to save time and money, and why they won a Balanced Scorecard award for their implementation.

Rapid scorecarding for manufacturing

White Paper

See how to rapidly create scorecards with IBM Cognos 8 BI to establish clear metrics and align your decisions to corporate strategies and goals.

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