Many of the top industrial sector businesses worldwide rely on IBM Business Analytics software to deliver smarter operations and performance, including:
- 19 of the top 20 manufacturers.
- All of the top ten automakers.
Business intelligence software lets you consolidate, track, analyze and report on relevant data. Financial performance and strategy management software provides planning, budgeting and consolidation for linking strategy to dynamic plans and targets.
Advanced analytics software gives you the insight to anticipate trends and predict future outcomes. And analytic applications give you a quick start with a particular issue or domain.
Sales and operations planning
- Provide actionable insight to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
- Reconcile sales and demand forecasts with supply chain and production plans.
- Aggregate data from sources across the organization, creating a single, integrated view of performance.
- Forecast demand for new products.
Supply chain performance management
- Monitor and analyze your supply chain to control expenses going to labor, supplies, services and other areas across the chain.
- Align and Integrates demand, supply and financial plans and sales & marketing.
- Allows capacity, cost, and throughput modeling of multiple products across multiple plans to determine the right combinations in term of quality, delivery and price.
Predictive maintenance
- Perform preventive maintenance in order to maximize production uptime and minimize disruptive, costly unscheduled downtime.
- Identify the root cause of product failures, and address issues to reduce warranty cost and improve customer satisfaction.
- Determine the characteristics that increase ownership cost and downtime over the life of a system.
- Address expected weak spots during planned maintenance to reduce expensive emergency repairs.
Financial performance management
- Develop timely, reliable forecasts, budgets and plans.
- Integrate demand, supply and financial plans for better executive decision making.
- Automate workflow and aggregation by collecting volume and financial data from source systems.
- Improve cost forecasting.
Workforce management
- Understand key staffing and training gaps.
- Gain competitive advantage through effective succession planning.
- Monitor key workforce measures such as headcount and turnover, demographics, compensation, benefits and new talent recruitment using workforce analytic applications.
