Is a major portion of your product design and development delivered by partners or suppliers? Do you have a global value chain with partners emerging from across the globe? Effective integration of a supplier base creates the opportunity for greater innovation in product design and development, but you may face process, cultural and technical difficulties that may be unanticipated by your program managers. We can help you integrate a complex global value chain.
Produce and distribute more innovative products
PLM supply chain collaboration from IBM supports:
- Improved risk management by identifying, prioritizing and targeting critical supply chain collaboration processes and participants.
- Reduced time to market through the elimination of redundant tasks and rework.
- Liberation of scarce resources through the automation of supply chain processes, collaboration and information exchange.
- Global deployment.
- Process synchronization to support the establishment of common processes and tools across key areas of the supply chain, and the ability to profile suppliers with solutions aligned to their role.
