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Case Study - IBM PC Company USA
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The Problem
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Supply Chain Integration Project in collaboration with Inacom Corporation.
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The IBM PC Company suffered from a lack of integration between its manufacturing, forecasting, purchase ordering and shipping systems. As well as three different sales forecasts of product demand from different sources. This led to confusion and poor delivery performance.
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The Solution
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Worked with committee of supply specialists and key executives from IBM and Inacom to integrate forecasting, manufacturing and delivery systems in order to reduce the $1 billion pipeline of inventory.
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Designed and implemented an integration strategy for coupling demand directly to manufacturing. The solution provided assembly of multiple sourced components by the distributor (Inacom) with 14-day turnaround on customized PC configurations. The new systems included automatic allocation and shipping of both components and finished products.
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Designed and created software that integrated IBM and Inacom sourced forecasts as well as allowing product life-cycle projections and purchasing optimization by the distributor (Inacom).
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