Service detail
Supply chain planning includes those business processes that plan for and manage supply and demand across the entire supply chain. This service area facilitates effective supply chain planning and operational management which are both key to improving a company's overall performance, such as reducing inventory costs, optimizing resources and customer service levels, and ultimately, profit margins.
Highlights
 |  | | Our offerings are focused on the implementation services around supply chain planning transformation initiatives. |
Our services are centered around the key supply chain management processes:
- Supply planning
- Forecasting and demand management
- Inventory management and materials planning
- Production scheduling
In addition, collaboration and integration between these processes is critical to integrated supply chain planning.
IBM’s services for supply planning provide a collection of processes and financial modeling techniques that help companies overcome their business challenges. As a component of the value chain services framework, the offering identifies the root causes for unreliable supply planning.
Based upon the potential return, we assist our clients in:
- Prioritizing supply chain initiatives
- Assessing critical material and capacity constraints
- Establishing best practices that enable accurate and fast supply commitments
- Developing planning processes across the supply chain (from customers to suppliers)
- Reducing lead times and improving time-to-market for new products
We also offer industry-leading approaches for :
- Aggregation
- Design of master planning stages
- Techniques to embed new product introductions in the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process
Additionally, our implementation risk mitigation techniques increase the likelihood of on time, on budget projects that distinguish IBM from any consultancy. We partner with all the leading independent software vendors (ISVs) of supply chain planning (SCP) applications, including i2, Manugistics, and SAP.
