Outsourced manufacturing. Extended and complex supply chains. Greater competition for customers. Rising operational costs. Multiple transaction systems. For manufacturers worldwide, today’s business climate is increasingly complex and competitive.
IBM Cognos software provides an integrated, best practices platform for manufacturing performance management. It integrates and leverages your critical data and delivers the scorecarding, reporting, analysis and planning tools that manage and optimize performance.
Use IBM Cognos BI capabilities to:
- Consolidate data from sales, inventory, purchasing and production systems to improve production planning, scheduling and delivery.
- Provide scorecards and dashboards for immediate insight into key operational metrics.
- Provide daily reports on under-performing departments, employees, machines and operations.
- Implement supplier scorecards and analysis.
- Offer defect analysis to identify sources of quality problems and take corrective action quickly.
- Spot delivery variances as they emerge and find their causes and impact.
- Offer notifications of late deliveries, demand changes, production stoppages and other important events to let you take immediate action.
- Create a comprehensive, pre-built data warehouse, along with analytics and performance metrics that deliver quicker ROI.
Use IBM Cognos planning, forecasting, budgeting and consolidation capabilities to:
- Generate accurate and effective supply and production plans that meet changing customer demands and business conditions.
- Understand and model cost drivers like raw material, labor cost, transportation expense and overhead to reduce expenses.
- See the big picture by integrating revenue, demand, promotion, supply and production plans for a complete view of all the factors that affect supply chain performance.
- Improve sales and operations planning.
