Consumer products services: Case Study

Norway's largest brewer, Ringnes AS, teamed with IBM to install an advanced RFID tracking solution, providing near-real-time location data for containers and trucks, allowing the company to work smarter by optimizing traffic flow, usage of shipping containers and facility loading ports.

Technology specialists from leading Nordic food supplier team with IBM to implement farm-to-retail supply chain management solution based on RFID and Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS).

At Ringnes, a regional brewery and beverage distributor, IBM configured and installed an RFID solution to track and register loading and unloading of delivery trucks. Ringnes expects significant improvement in the effectiveness of their logistics operations by replacing manual tracking processes.

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Herbalife engaged IBM to create a turnkey compliance portal whose flexibility, automation and powerful reporting capabilities provides a firm foundation for the company’s current and future business control needs.

Ingersoll-Rand Club Car avoids Siebel implementation costs for in-house resources and gains better control of its business operations with IBM Global Services support.

IBM helped Ingersoll-Rand consolidate dispersed operations, processes and infrastructure, bringing separate business units under a common enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.

Artnature turned to IBM Global Business Services for help in redesigning its sales process to meet its future business goals by implemented a new sales process.

Atlas Roofing wanted to maximize its original investment in an enterprise resource solution by implementing new features and functionality, while standardizing business processes and systems on one application.

A major consumer packaged goods company improves the effectiveness of its trade promotions by launching a new Joint Business Planning strategy with customers and implementing CAS' CPWerx solution with help from IBM Business Consulting Services.

A U.S.-based provider of accessibility services to individuals with visual impairments gains a better understanding of its customers' needs and the value of emerging assistive technologies when it engages IBM Global Business Services to develop a strategic accessibility technology roadmap.

European kitchen and bath fittings company reduces costs and improves customer service levels when it consolidates and outsources the management of its logistics network with the help of IBM Global Business Services.

An electronics manufacturer implements a critical Web site with a tight deadline and budget, developed and installed by IBM Global Business Services.

IBM was looking for a way to create a new labor resource management system to manage employee and contractor resources in a manner akin to the ways in which a supply chain tracks and forecasts demand and inventory.

Leading international holding company in the sun-bed industry, JK-Holding engaged IBM Global Business Services to deploy an Internet portal that would offer a basic integration framework to support a future service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.

TSL assists customers in controlling and reducing IT-related costs with a comprehensive suite of capabilities, including bill audit and optimization, invoice management and chargeback and software services. Today, TSL delivers information to more than 50,000 users worldwide.

Whirlpool, a leading US home appliance manufacturer, works with IBM to define and implement a set of optimized global business processes running on a consolidated IT platform.