Automotive Industry

A leading motorcycle manufacturer
A leading motorcycle manufacturer was challenged by slow speed to market, high inventory levels and high transportation costs. IBM identified the initiatives that would have the greatest impact on the manufacturer’s issues. The client was able to increase the benefits of implementing the new initiatives using IBM’s Business Value Modeling Tool.

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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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Exploiting technology
IBM has a history of helping clients to exploit technology for business benefit. It was among the first companies to recognize the profound business implications of the Internet and related technologies - a recognition embodied in the term e-business - and in the seven years since, IBM has been hard at work on its own transformation as well as that of multitudes of clients.

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Integrated Systems Design
From sophisticated aerospace innovations to playful features in children’s toys, embedded software is emerging as a key ingredient to competitive success. While companies struggle to differentiate themselves and their offerings with such innovations as safety features on an automobile’s dashboard or digital photo capabilities on a cell phone, they also must breathe new life into their development processes. IBM takes an innovative approach to helping streamline and simplify the complex design and development processes involved in creating embedded software.

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Managing business risk
With IBM's risk modeling tools and decision optimization solutions, risks of many kinds are becoming much easier to tackle and, in some cases, largely avoid. IBM has tapped into its business insight and technological prowess to develop powerful risk management tools that are allowing businesses to better understand the impact of possible future events and to act accordingly.

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Model Driven Business Transformation
A national retail chain improves consistency and reliability in its inventory flow forecasts through formal operation modeling developed using the IBM Model Driven Business Transformation micropractice.

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SPARCLE
IBM's SPARCLE policy management tool is helping organizations create, implement and monitor policies that protect personal identifiable information.

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Innovation management services
Innovation management services help businesses introduce new strategies for targeted growth.

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Social network analytics and business optimization (SNO)
In a corporate environment where informal social networks often dictate how work is accomplished, IBM's social network optimization tool can assist businesses in optimizing knowledge sharing among employees.

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Web-enabled Integrated Aftermarket Services
Aftermarket parts management involves a number of critical processes that often span multiple organizations and geographies in order to deliver a part to a customer on time. Seeing an opportunity to bring significant value to the challenge of aftermarket parts management, several IBM divisions are collaborating to develop an integrated aftermarket parts solution.

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Business optimization
IBM is helping companies stay one step ahead of the competition by using advanced analytics to derive valuable business intelligence from complex data.

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

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Contact Center of the Future
Smart companies are investing in their contact center operations to strengthen customer relationships, while at the same time using automation technologies to streamline operations.

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Dagan Gilat
In today's hotly competitive global market, Haifa Research Lab senior manager Dagan Gilat is working on cutting edge technologies to help transform business processes and create new business strategy models.

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Impact of Future Technology
IBM's IoFT solution helps businesses better prepare for disruptive change, and more clearly understand how political and economic events and scientific breakthroughs can affect their organizations.

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Information on demand
IBM's Information on Demand solutions help businesses leverage their information assets to better compete in a global market environment.

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Olaf Zimmermann
As more companies move toward Web-based services as a way to improve customer service and business operations, research staff member and executive IT architect Olaf Zimmermann is lending his expertise to architectural decision modeling and SOA and Web services design.

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Sheng Lu
With network performance a key component of successful e-commerce businesses, HiPODS engineer Sheng Lu is helping develop network performance analysis tools that can pinpoint problems that hamper Web operations and slow down network performance.

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Wenjun Yin
In an era when location can dictate the success or failure of retail ventures, Wenjun Yin is helping clients use technology to find the right location with the right mix of merchandise for the right customer.

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Workforce Analytics
Efficient workforce management is a key strategy in streamlining operations and reducing costs in a highly competitive global market.

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Xing Fang
With user experience a prime differentiator for e-commerce businesses, HiPODS engineer Xing Fang is helping develop performance improvement methodologies that can be shared across industries and platforms.

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