Cognos solutions for supply chain

IBM Cognos supply chain software and performance applications deliver the complete range of business intelligence, enterprise planning and analytics capabilities.

Reporting, analysis and business intelligence

IBM Cognos software offers the most comprehensive business intelligence and reporting coverage in the industry.

• Identify which processes and operations generate unfavorable variances and why.
• Identify under-performing suppliers.
• Reassess and optimize product mix for a specific region.
• Report on performance by department, employee, machine, customer, supplier and operation.
• Automatically send email alerts to supply chain managers when a pre-determined business situation or unusual event occurs.
• Share information with key partners and suppliers through a BI extranet.

Scorecarding

Drive effective supply chain management from your desktop.

• Monitor supply chain performance in terms of efficiency, utilization, quality, cost and throughput.
• Identify variances in material usage, downtime, labor, and overhead by shift, operation and supplier.
• Create and monitor key performance indicators, such as shipment performance, supply chain cycle time, inventory, quality, cost-to-serve and supplier responsiveness.

Planning, forecasting and consolidation

IBM Cognos planning and consolidation software improves performance across your supply chain.

• Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems.
• Enable driver-based planning to streamline and focus efforts around increased throughput, changes in supply or customer demands.

Supply Chain Analytics

IBM Cognos analytics applications delivers hundreds of pre-built reports, metrics and connections to standard data sources. They help you identify the business "leaks" that cost money.

• Monitor key performance metrics of your extended supply chain to maximize customer performance.
• Manage demand and supply plans to minimize inventory investment while achieving high levels of customer service.
• Use buyer and supplier performance metrics to consolidate spend and drive cost-effective purchasing performance.
• Understand yield throughout all plants and specific operations.