Our comprehensive supply chain management offerings address every phase of the supply chain, from design to source to plan to build to distribute. As a single source for supply chain management, IBM Supply Chain Management Services can help you address the full supply chain spectrum.

At IBM, we know supply chains intimately, having worked with many customers in many industries. We use our internal supply chain to enable our own continuing transformation, and we know it works. By overhauling our supply chains by consolidating factory operations, taking advantage of global optimization for select manufacturing and simplifying product designs, we achieved savings of US$5.6 billion in 2002 alone. IBM services consistently ranks in the top 2-3 of firms providing supply chain management consulting support.

Supply Chain Strategy - we identify, quantify and assist in planning your supply chain transformation.

Supply Chain Planning - we help you plan and manage supply and demand across your supply chain.

Supply Chain Enterprise Applications - we integrate your supply chain with existing or new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

Logistics - we work with you to implement new technologies in warehousing, transportation and reverse logistics that can result in cost reduction and improved customer service.

Product Lifecycle Management - we help you design, build and maintain products, and improve design and product innovation processes, while potentially reducing costs, increasing quality and shortening development cycles.

Procurement - we help improve your procurement operations to achieve better prices, greater efficiency, tighter spend control and improved service levels.

Supply Chain Operations - we help you realize operational improvements across the supply chain to enable cost reduction, cash flow gains and greater efficiencies.

Asset Management - we work with you to optimize those business processes that plan for and manage all aspects of the asset lifecycle across all enterprise assets.