Wednesday 27 March 2013

A Great Tool For Optimization Of Supply Chain Management

A new talk in today's marketing, IBM Sterling Supply Chain Visibility has taken the marketing into a higher level where this tool provides a complete updation on inbound supply and outbound supply. As an overview what actually does this Sterling Supply Chain Visibility do is it tracks down each and every event that happens in marketing right from the supplier to the consumer (lets say customer). This tool tracks each and every record of marketing that happens between the supplier and the customer and also helps you monitor the connectivity to all your supply chain trading partners, and enterprise applications.
Now let us think what is the use of these records that this tool provides us. When we are able to view the marketing of  products right from the supplier to the customer we get to know about the products which  are in demand by looking into the sales of how many products have been marketed. Thus this could improve product availability metrics. This tool also helps in Tracking suppliers and carrier performance across the purchase and sales. One could also look into performance metrics with supplier, carrier and customer performance reporting . The best part is one could get the immediate details of the supplies, supply failure reports, sales reports and performance of the marketing.
Looking more into IBM Sterling Supply Chain Visibility , it provides solutions to the supply chain challenges that marketing faces today.
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Visibility has following features:
Dashboards: If you are familiar with coremetrics then you could understand what dashboards are clearly. Dashboards help us to monitor or view alerts, invoices, shipments, KPI charts, and orders.
Visibility: The name itself create a kind of idea what it actually is. Visibility gives a set of views to look up the status of an order, shipment, invoice, and payment.
Performance Indicators(KPI's): Helps in generating analysis reports of various performances.
Inbound Supply Monitoring: When any unplanned events occur in marketing or any issues in marketing between the supplier and customer notification are to be raised so that one could understand what is happening out there. The Inbound Supply Monitoring helps in monitoring these aspects and raise notifications.
Looking into all these aspects, this tool is a good step to lead your marketing in a smarter way.

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