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Optimize your Supply Chain for Smarter Commerce

How to Create the Foundation for Customer-Focused Supply Chain Planning and Execution 

Abstract:

Learn how to integrate your core planning and execution processes so that you can anticipate, control, and react to disruptions and volatility, in collaboration with customers, suppliers, and logistics partners to create a truly customer centric supply chain.

Such customer focus presents challenges—and opportunities—for businesses and supply chains in particular. For example, how do you cope with the global complexity and ever-fluctuating consumer demand? How does your supply chain? Can you see the entire operation to gain insight for faster, better decision-making?

Applying optimization to maximize enterprise-wide operations of manufacturing and distribution supply chains enables you to deliver the right products, to the right customers, at the right time and price while minimizing cost and maximizing profit. It’s all about optimizing, planning and executing, day-in & day-out.

IBM offers a new business model, Smarter Commerce, that  integrates the operational foundation—procurement, development, marketing, sales, service—so your entire enterprise becomes more focused to meet customer driven demand.

Educational benefits and Business Outcomes:

Integrate supply chain planning and execution to narrow the gap between sales and fulfillment.

Advanced analytics use historical and real-time — data in the cloud — to help you forecast what will happen in the event of a disruption.

Using optimization, discover the best solutions and alternatives by evaluating what-if scenarios for transportation, inventory, sourcing, warehousing and other typical supply chain problems, built on the resources and constraints intrinsic to your supply chain.

Enabling end-to-end visibility improves collaboration with customers, suppliers, and logistics partners to create a profitable customer centric supply chain.

IBM cloud-based execution solutions give you control over normal day-to-day processes to fulfill orders, manage inventories, and move products.

Featuring Dr. Michael S. Watson, Ph.D., Optimization & Supply Chain Team Lead, IBM and SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore.

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