Supply Chain

Supply Chain

Improve the efficiency and performance of the supply network to provide customers with what they want, when and where they want it, while ensuring the profitability of the business

An organisation’s supply chain is such a critical process that it is crucial to make the customer experience as satisfying as possible. A high-performing supply chain provides efficiency and responsiveness to companies, so their customers get what they want, when and where they want it, in a way that is cost-effective for the organisation and contributes to the sustainability of the supply chain.

We can consider three key phases in a supply chain improvement process:

Supply chain design.
This describes the network design processes, such as where warehouse facilities are located and how product flows between them, and strategic objectives such as demand forecasting, supply establishment, and operations planning and scheduling.

Supply chain planning.
Includes the creation of the strategic supply chain implementation plan, inventory planning and asset coordination to optimise deliveries, and supplier information services to customers.

Supply chain execution.
Focuses on execution-oriented applications and systems: warehouse and inventory management, transportation management, global trade management and other applications, such as real-time decision support, supply chain visibility and order management systems.

Our goal is to partner with our customers in building secure, smarter and more resilient supply chains. This means having the best tools, technologies and resources, such as blockchain, AI and IoT, to:

    • Connect and collaborate faster and more efficiently
    • Drive visibility
    • Have the ability to manage disruptions

That’s why we recommend IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite, a solution designed to provide full visibility, real-time insights and recommend actions to turn disruptions into opportunities and increase customer profits.

It is an open, integrated platform that easily connects with the supplier ecosystem, while leveraging advanced technologies such as AI and blockchain, to build a secure and intelligent supply chain.

 

IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite offers you:

Real-time intelligence and actionable recommendations.

  • The benefits of AI for all business sectors.
  • Enable end-to-end visibility and the ability to provide near real-time alerts and recommendations that can be automated for autocorrect actions.
  • can be automated for self-correcting actions.
  • Real-time recommendations based on a global view of the inventory.
  • Elimination of transaction blind spots.
  • Context to help understand the implications of climatic, social and economic forces on your inventory.

Reliable connectivity backed by blockchain.

  • A blockchain-enabled multi-enterprise business network that provides frictionless connectivity and collaboration, highly secure connectivity and collaboration with customers, partners and suppliers.
  • The ability to enable and automate Onboarding self-service functions so you can onboard new partners in hours or days, rather than weeks, days, rather than weeks.
  • Provide a shared, transparent and immutable record of real-time, multi-enterprise digital events.

An open platform for developers to create custom solutions.

A hallmark of IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite is the openness of the platform.
It allows developers and systems integrators to create, extend and integrate custom solutions that can interoperate with other networks and business applications.
It also allows them to incorporate third-party data so that all connected applications and networks can benefit from it.
Ultimately, this means you can tailor supply chain solutions to meet the unique needs of your business.

Hybrid cloud integration to extend the value of existing supply chain investments.

Enables you to host custom analytics and AI, as well as your own data services with IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
Enables you to interconnect our network with other networks and systems with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.
Enables you to run your software in your own data centre or in virtually any cloud with IBM Certified Containers Sterling Order Management.
It also lets you choose where to run workloads and link private workloads to value-added services in IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite.

Benefits of IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite

Optimise supply chain execution

Address recurring supply chain challenges faster.

Manage
complexity efficiently

Connect goods and services into a single, managed order to increase profitability.

Increase flexibility and compliance

Automatically scale to meet changes in demand.

End-to-end supply chain visibility with AI

Connect and analyse data from multiple sources.

Reduce the impact of disruptions

Identify hidden anomalies in transaction data and predict future events.

Blockchain-enabled shared records 

Establish immutable shared records across multiple partners.

Drive efficiency and control costs

Optimise sourcing to lower delivery costs.

Deliver on customer promises promises 

Have a single source of order tracking with accurate, real-time information available for display at the time of purchase.

Leading-edge hybrid technology 

Enjoy an experienced platform that securely processes millions of orders per day.