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Operations
Overview

Cognos delivers software and services to maximize Operations efficiency in your organization:

Materials management: Manage your inventory investment at optimal levels
  • Identify usage and coverage trends to reduce unnecessary carrying costs and inventory write-downs
Procurement: Leverage your company's purchasing power
  • Consolidate procurement activities, accurately compare and evaluate different suppliers, and monitor supplier performance.
Production: Gain visibility across all plants, lines, and shifts
  • Analyze the source and impact of production problems, and identify trends in quality, efficiency, and throughput.
  • Find out how the U.S Coast Guard created a consolidated fight operations system--including flight itineraries, aircraft status, maintenance, logistics and supplier information--into a single system with Cognos.
Model the use of plant capital resources with other functional areas
  • Integrate production and distribution plans with finance, marketing, operations, and other data.

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