[photopress:logistics_IBM_avatar_1_2.jpg,full,alignright]IBM has opened in Beijing the first supply chain innovation center. IBM’s new Supply Chain Innovation Center will leverage the company’s expertise in supply chain research, business consulting services, software capabilities and its own Integrated Supply Chain experience to create new solutions for companies around the world.
Wading through that PR gobbleygook — and that is a much shortened version — you get the idea that IBM is going to produce integrated supply chain solutions for other companies. Which seems an excellent idea.
The next two paragraphs should not be changed as they show flack-ese in its full glory:
‘The new innovation center was announced as part of the company’s third worldwide Supply Chain Summit featuring senior executives from companies managing the world’s leading supply chains.
‘Featuring dedicated supply chain researchers, the Beijing Supply Chain Innovation Center will collaborate with companies to develop innovative solutions such as the Supply Chain Virtual Command Center and the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler. In addition to creating new solutions, the center will showcase and leverage existing industry solutions to help companies expand and grow their integrated supply chain capabilities — advancing them on the supply chain maturity curve.’
Good not have put it better myself. Excellent. The ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbeear to cheer.
What it means, very possibly, is that IBM is about to sell a new service to customers and that service is designed to make their supply chains work better.
Sanjeev Nagrath, Global Leader, Supply Chain Management, IBM Global Business Services who did not write the press release, said, ‘Helping companies transform and extend their supply chains in a globally integrated economy requires new thinking, new methods and new tools . China, which is one of the fastest growing economies and a key link in global supply chains is an ideal place to locate our new innovation center to create solutions for companies in not only emerging markets, but anywhere in the world.’
The illustration is of an IBM avatar. There is no confirmation that this computer created figure wrote the press release but it seems distinctly possible.
Source: CNN Money