Achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility for optimal profitability
Protect profitability when the supply chain shifts
When operational realities change faster than your plans, your company’s profitability can suffer. Alleviate the volatility with IBM Planning Analytics: a supply chain planning software that helps you align logistics, inventory and financial plans.
With a single, governed source of truth, you can instantly understand your margin, cost-to-serve and working capital impact before making crucial decisions. IBM Planning Analytics helps you act with confidence to protect and grow profitability.
You can easily integrate other enterprise resource planning and general ledger data sources. With aligned supply, demand, inventory and financial plans, you get a better look at your margin, cost to serve and working capital impact.
You can run granular what-if scenarios across products, locations and constraints with high-performance memory modeling. The results help you instantly assess disruptions and confidently rebalance plans.
AI-driven forecasting can help you identify patterns and understand interdependencies across demand and supply. Spot emerging risks and update operational and financial plans to stay ahead.
What you can do
Unify operational and financial plans in one governed source. Create and update plans instantly across huge datasets of SKUs and locations using high-performance modeling. Use impact analysis and high-level insights to make strategic pivots.
Empower planning, finance and operations teams in your organization to gain deeper visibility into your organization’s supply chain management. Through collaboration, teams can determine outliers, generate insights and highlight performance drivers instantly.
Use AI forecasting to anticipate demand shifts, evaluate real-time operational trade-offs and improve accuracy with always-current data. Eliminate planning blind spots by unifying scattered demand inputs into one consistent view.
Case study
Novolex saved 16% in excess inventory
Instead of taking weeks, Novolex can now process data within a few hours, taking two days for analysis, discussion and review, and providing clarity on the available capacity to proceed with new products and to support the current market.