Published on 21-Jan-2010
Validated on 07 Mar 2013
Customer:
Whirlpool Corporation
Industry:
Electronics
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Business Intelligence, Business Performance Transformation, Data Warehouse, Optimizing IT, Service Management, Smarter Planet, Transforming Business
Smarter Planet:
Smarter Infrastructure
Overview
Whirlpool Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of more than US$18 billion, more than 73,000 employees and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world.
Business need:
Whirlpool needed to not only consolidate its global business processes, but also integrate them to deliver maximum efficiency through its entire value chain.
Solution:
Whirlpool engaged IBM Global Business Services® to reconstitute its fragmented business processes with best practices across all of its processes and lines of business.
Benefits:
Substantial reduction in finished goods inventory; faster product development cycles; improved ability to focus on the most profitable products and features; more effective allocation of trade partner incentives
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Whirlpool engaged IBM Global Business Services to reconstitute its fragmented business processes with best practices across all of its processes and lines of business.
