Connecting and managing suppliers end-to-end

A major healthcare insurance company
This solution applied the tools and methods of IBM’s Model-Driven Business Transformation capability to the needs of a major insurance company. IBM developed new models and linkages that helped enhance the company’s ability to monitor its business processes and make modifications in response to changes in the external environment.

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Dynamic Inventory Optimization System
ODIS takes a closer look at improving inventory control to help companies better calculate future needs – and eliminate unnecessary and costly stockpiling. Some clients have already reduced safety stock requirements by as much as 40 percent.

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Inventory optimization with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
Supply chain design and optimization can be a cost-efficient way to add value across an enterprise, and IBM has developed a solution that can help trim costs, improve customer service and boost cash flow.

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Managing the Supply Chain
Supply chains are vulnerable to disruptions from both the supply and demand side. Supply shocks include the challenges of fast new product rollouts and frequent order changes. Demand shocks include fickle customer preferences coupled with ever-greater pricing power. Revenues get squeezed, but costs don't budge. Learn how IBM Research solved these issues by designing and implementing an XML-based, open architecture, e-procurement system with a vast supplier base; how the system cut inventory storage time and procurement cycle time by about half; and, most importantly, how it’s helping the company deliver products to customers faster.

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Secure Trade Lane for worldwide goods exchange
IBM Research’s Secure Trade Lane solution concept helps facilitate a more secure exchange of container-based goods shipped worldwide.

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Changrui Ren
Changrui Ren is working to develop process-centric supply chain transformation tools.

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