Business analytics for electronics

Many of the world’s top electronics organisations rely on IBM Business Analytics software to deliver smarter electronics.

Business intelligence software lets you consolidate, track, analyse 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.

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Sales and operations planning

• Provide actionable insight to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
• Reconcile sales and demand forecasts with supply chain and production plans.
• Forecast demand for new products and assure that revenue and margin goals are attained.

Supply chain performance management

• Monitor and analyse your supply chain to control expenses going to labor, supplies, services and other areas across the chain.
• Align sales, marketing, supply chain and finance.
• Compare and benchmark raw materials, energy and other suppliers in terms of quality, delivery and price.

Predictive maintenance

• Use predictive analytics to identify when equipment or assets are likely to fail or need service or to avoid unnecessary maintenance
• 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.