Cognos solutions for supply chain

Successful organisations use IBM Cognos performance management software and analytics to gain comprehensive visibility into their supply chain.

IBM Cognos software delivers the key capabilities to help you effectively manage materials, production and suppliers across the supply chain:

Visibility

• Monitor performance across processes, products or suppliers, and drill through to the transaction details when required.
• Identify key metrics and receive alerts when performance is off-track so you can make immediate corrections.

Predictability

• Through regular reporting and analysis, proactively identify events, trends and other conditions that can lead to performance problems.
• Analyse operational trends and project them forward.
• Take pre-emptive action to prevent inventory shortfalls and delays.

Complete information

• Consolidate data across the organisation to provide complete and consistent information for actionable analysis.
• Distribute reports, analysis and other information through a centralised portal or extranet.
• Receive timely notification of events, such as late supplier delivery or production stoppages.

Global optimisation

• Gain insight into cause-and-effect relationships to understand the impact of decisions up and down the line.
• IBM Cognos software provides multilingual and multi-currency support as well as proven scalability to support deployments that span countries, languages, currencies and user groups.