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Work closer with your vendors to reduce inventories and unnecessary administrative costs. Supply chain management (SCM) solutions can help to streamline complex financial processes, improve profitability and customer service, and decrease overall supply chain inventory.

The advantage

We have developed business partner* relationships with established, best-of-breed SCM solution providers. Their solutions, coupled with IBM® products and services, help to deliver the cost-competitive, scalable and secure infrastructure you need.

Next steps

Learn more about the broad range of IBM and IBM Business Partner* SCM solutions designed for the Manufacturing industry by contacting an IBM Business Solution Specialist to discuss which solution best matches your business needs.

Supply chain management (SCM) solutions

IBM and Bright
The Bright Mobility Suite - WebSphere Enterprise Edition, provides a flexible, highly scalable Enterprise Mobility Platform for delivering true enterprise application mobility. The Bright Mobility Suite provides a suite of products that design, deploy and manage tailored Mobile Applications, which are an extension of back-office enterprise data systems. To allow organisations to rapidly address the mobility requirements of all company business units (e.g. Sales, Service, Asset & Facilities Management, Warehousing etc.) the Bright Mobility Suite delivers feature rich Mobility solutions specifically tailored to meet an organisations unique business requirements. Utilising IBMs acclaimed WebSphere J2EE Application Server platform also provides enhanced integration options when connecting to multiple back-office enterprise data sources thereby enabling true Enterprise Data Mobility.

Concentric
Developed by Dassault Systems, CATIA is recognised as the world's leading CAD/CAM/CAE software. CATIA is designed to optimise all stages of the production life cycle from Design to production and offers the most comprehensive applications portfolio available in a single system, aiming to maximise concurrent product development practices and process re-engineering.

IBM and Intentia
IBM and Intentia's SCM solution supports total supply chain management and optimisation, and efficient collaboration with suppliers, customers and other partners. Our solution can help you improve your supplier relationship management (SRM), customer relationship management (CRM), procurement, product management, customer order handling, master margin control and cash control processes. The solution enables full supply chain transparency, highly accurate forecasting and demand planning and efficient management of inventory returns, as well as offering extended product catalogue functionality, e-sales capability and full support for mobile after-service and RFID.

IBM and LSA
IBM and LSA Australia offer Infor VISUAL Enterprise - an integrated ERP suite of software designed specifically for the make to order, engineer to order and assemble to order manufacturer. Infor VISUAL is flexible enough to be used in virtually every industry - from aerospace and defence to capital equipment and electronics, from biomedical to fabricated metals, precision tool making and beyond. With advanced planning and scheduling, quality management, customer relationship management, lean manufacturing, time & attendance and warehouse management system capabilities built in, Infor VISUAL Enterprise will appeal to manufacturers and distributors with a combination of affordability, scalability, depth of functionality and ease of use.

IBM and Manhattan Associates
IBM and Manhattan Associates have a strong and long term strategic alliance, offering proactive, innovative solutions for the improvement and optimisation of automotive supply chain and logistics operations. Manhattan Associates - Integrated Logistics Solutions - provide a comprehensive and integrated suite of solutions designed to meet the business needs of the extended automotive supply chain. These solutions include applications for warehouse, transportation, distributed order management, reverse logistics and trading partner management applications, as well as RFID, performance management and event management capabilities. The suite has recently been further expanded to include advanced planning and replenishment capabilities.

IBM and Markinson
IBM and Markinson together provide key end-to-end software solutions and services to supply-chain companies in the mid-market. Our difference is focus. With increasing competition in all markets, it's vital to have solutions that empower your company to achieve its very best. Markinson's range of products for the Manufacturing industry include solutions for Enterprise Management, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and eBusiness.

IBM and Mid-comp Odyssey
IBM and Mid-Comp Odyssey offer an Intelligent Supply Chain and Corporate Accounting business solution that provides organisations with full financial processing and inventory management. Odyssey provides warehousing and distribution managers with full forecasting, warehouse management, long chain logistics, product purchasing and sales functionality.

IBM and Pronto
IBM and Pronto Software offer fully integrated solutions for key business functions including: Financials, Manufacturing, Project Costing Management, Service Management, Relationship Management, e-Business, Facilities Management, Business Intelligence, and extended Supply Chain Management incorporating advanced warehouse management; scanpack; EDI messaging gateway; radio frequency processing; transport carrier interfaces; and now EANnet compliant data synchronisation capability.

IBM and SSA
SSA Global serves five of the top Industrial Equipment and Manufacturing companies worldwide. Manufacturing in the Industrial Machinery and Equipment segment ranges from Cranes, Railroad Maintenance Equipment, Injection Molding Machinery, Airport Luggage Handling Systems, Power Transmission, Mining Trucks, Fork Lifts, Tractors, Oil Platforms to Ships.
Customers in this vertical are investing in their transition from a manufacturer of heavy equipment to a provider of total life cycle value. Also, many have gone through a series of acquisitions, have established operations close to their customers and must now create the operational synergy between their, formerly independent, units.

IBM and Viewlocity
Viewlocitys Control Tower Platform is, bar none, the most mature and feature rich product of its type on the market. A partial selection of capabilities and features includes:

Monitoring and Alerting of Orders, Production, Shipments, Inventory and Demand
Process Building, Modelling and Updating, Designed for use Business Users
Analytics/Dashboards for Decision Support & Continuous Improvement
Advanced User Interface
Data Cleansing & Management
Supplier Performance Management
Dynamic Real-Time Sourcing
Production Monitoring

The control tower Platform is incredibly flexible and can be easily customised to meet YOUR businesss requirements. It is the most widely deployed solution of its kind, with over 20,000 entities connected to date.

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*'Business Partner' is used informally and does not imply a legal partnership.

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