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Optimize your critical operations andimplement the best possible operating modeland supply chain strategy, including networkand inventory optimization.Overview

Business leaders understand the importance of high performing, highly

efficient and responsive supply chains in meeting market demands,

creating efficiency and profit margins, and driving sustainable

competitive advantage. From managing suppliers and procurement

processes through the planning, manufacturing and inventory functions,

business leaders are acutely focused on making their operations more

responsive and efficient. This includes improving responsiveness to

customers, reducing energy and other resource use, optimizing core

processes, applying technology to automate processes, reducing cycle

time/complexity, increasing return on capital employed and integrating

functional business processes. In addition, new imperatives, including

emerging markets, sustainability, and heightened risks, require that

leaders and companies are prepared to drive change smartly, act

decisively and remain flexible enough to adjust course as necessary.

Operations and Supply Chain services focus on identifying and

quantifying supply chain improvements and assisting clients in

transforming their operations, from suppliers to the customer, to drive

competitive advantage.

IBM has one of the broadest portfolios of alliances with leading and

emerging supply chain vendors, making our practice the single source

for leading and comprehensive operations and supply chain

management solutions.IBM offers distinctive advisory and process design services for critical

supply chain operations, including both supply and demand side

processes. Our services include:

  Target operating model: Provides current operational maturity

assessment and roadmap to defining and/or improving a client's

Operations Strategy. Key deliverables include business review, current

operating model assessment, desired future state and change

management plan roadmap.

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  Sustainability strategy: Helps clients better understand sustainability

opportunities and challenges in order to optimize costs, enhance

revenues, and manage risk in a fast changing global environment.

Defines an overarching sustainability strategy, aligned with corporate

strategy, to capture value from sustainability initiatives and enable

change required to implement specific sustainability actions. Provides

the high level business case for potential initiatives (e.g., procurement,

green sigma, green IT, etc) to help clients prioritize sustainability

investments.

  Product development and PLM strategy: Transforms innovation

processes and build new PLM/innovation capabilities to save cost,

accelerate product introduction, and design and build better products.

  Service lifecycle management: Manages a service offering fromideation though creation through delivery and end-of-life, and enable

new capabilities, such as methodology enablement, learning systems,

knowledge management, career stage management and other activities.

Includes optimizing business operations via asset lifecycle management.

Business challenges

Business leaders today are addressing many challenges and

opportunities in today's growingly complex supply chain environments,including:

  Developing operations and supply chain strategies that improve

effectiveness and efficiency of processes, and support innovation across

the value chain

  Leveraging process diagnostics and benchmarking, scenario-based

strategies and lean principles to improve operational efficiency

  Generating savings and improving operational productivity through new

strategies and technologies  Optimizing all aspects of planning, sourcing, fulfillment and logistics to

drive out cost and improve performance

  Creating an operational foundation for future growth, capacity and

flexibility

  Building a sustainable supply chain while improving efficiency and

profitability

  Optimizing manufacturing performance and improving asset

management  Deploying and optimizing globally integrated capabilities and operations

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  Driving highly flexible and responsive operational environments

Why IBM

Our operations and supply chain management consultants help clientsachieve new and sustainable business value by formulating supply chain

strategies, managing change and setting direction for new

transformations and operational models. Working collaboratively with

clients, we provide solutions to many of the most difficult operation and

supply chain challenges. We provide expert analysis, business planning,

vision development, project planning, business case creation, and

ultimately link strategy to execution in ways that build continuous

improvement and success.

The IBM operations and supply chain consulting practice is part of IBM

Global Business Services®, one of the world's leading management

consulting practices. With experienced operations and supply chain

professionals deployed worldwide and working across all major sectors,

IBM has business expertise across more than a dozen industries. Our 

consultants have built a long track record of client engagement success.

Together with our proven assets, methodology, partnerships and

research capabilities, we act as trusted business and strategy advisors

to our clients worldwide.