IBM Opens Global Supply Chain Innovation Center in China

IBM Opens Global Supply Chain Innovation Center in China

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of the first supply chain innovation center dedicated to helping companies worldwide integrate and transform their global supply chain capabilities. IBM’s new Supply Chain Innovation Center located in Beijing, China 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.

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.

Today’s announcement illustrates how IBM itself operates as a globally integrated enterprise. Global integration is embedded in IBM’s workforce, strategy, leadership and operations — enhancing how the company collaborates across time zones and cultures and locates its operations, functions and leadership anywhere in the world based on the right skills and business environment.

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