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The Key Capabilities of a Digital Supply Chain Network
Providing the right product at the right time with the highest level of customer service and least landed cost has become much more than a planning problem. A unified planning and execution platform running a single version of the truth (SVOT) across a multi-party, multi-tier digital supply chain network powered by advanced, prescriptive analytics is now required. The existing hub and spoke style of today’s “enterprise centric” systems is no longer sufficient. Here are the key capabilities the Digital Supply Chain Network™ must have to meet the demands of today's global supply chains...
How Network-Based Planning Can Lead Supply Chains Out of Crisis
Today, supply chain disruptions remain a significant problem. A lack of visibility is at the core of the dilemma. Bottlenecks are occurring in sectors that aren’t equipped for the ebb and flow of production created by the pandemic. Many companies are still betting on traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which provides the ability to interact only with trading partners one level up and one level down. That approach is incapable of providing the rapid connectivity, end-to-end visibility and responsiveness required across global supply chains today. There is a better way, in the form of network-based supply chain software that gathers all trading partners into a consolidated ecosystem, from end-consumer through tier 2 and 3 suppliers. By matching supply with demand, companies can deliver the right product at the right time, with the highest customer service levels at the least landed cost.
Digital Twins: A Business' Better Half
Digital twins enable supply chain professionals to monitor and analyze business problems in a safe environment, virtually testing solutions before applying them in real life. Although traditionally discussed in relation to physical manufacturing operations, they can be particularly effective when applied to the more abstract concepts of supply chain network planning, operations and execution. Examples of these opportunities include improving node-to-node movements across a network, driving policies that improve the customer experience, and solving many problems that present themselves during planning and execution. One Network's Joe Bellini explains why supply chain digital twins are integral to a real-time Digital Supply Chain™ Network.
Encore Acts of Successful CEOs: Greg Brady of One Network Enterprises
The recent member into this rarefied club of CEO comebacks, includes Greg Brady, who founded One Network Enterprises. He launched the company in 2002 after leading i2 Technologies to high growth and market leadership during a seven-year tenure, both as CEO and head of worldwide operations. Mr. Brady, called ‘the smartest guy in supply chain,’ was one of the first to understand the limitations of traditional enterprise-centric software applications. Brady orchestrated the world’s first real-time demand-driven multi-enterprise platform in the cloud. This enterprise platform effectively managed end-to-end supply chain processes and powered hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise savings. His leadership and bottom-line results have led One Network to be one of the most respected organizations in the world.
Ghana's Integrated Logistics Management System and Intelligent Control Tower
Ghana, through the implementation of its Integrated Logistics Management System (GhiLMIS) powered by One Network Enterprises, is looking at ways to improve visibility and analytics to facilitate decision-making across the organization. By enabling this capability, Ghana will be able to instantly aggregate data from its supply chain inventory, multiple warehousing centers and 3PLs to guide improvements in the supply chain. This will lead to increased efficiencies, such as reductions in overall inventory operation costs and the ability to better foresee and respond to problems in the supply chain.
PFSCM’s Control Tower for Supply Chain Management: A Digital Transformation Journey
The Partnership for Supply Chain Management has invested in a next-generation Control Tower, and undergone a digital transformation to improve supply chain visibility and collaboration among stakeholders to bring COVID vaccines, HIV, and malaria supplies to more than 83 countries. With this transformation, PFSCM has automated key processes, shortened lead times, improved customer service levels, and laid the groundwork for future digital supply chain innovation.
The Secret to Rapid Digitisation: A Dual Platform Strategy
How do you digitize and transform quickly, without starting from scratch and throwing away your enormous investment in traditional systems? This article explains why you don't have to. With a network technology layer in place, you can move business functions onto the network over time in a systematic way that matches your priorities—while retaining the best of your legacy systems. This unlocks enormous value as you eliminate time lags, lower costs, and slash inventory buffers across the network.
Healthcare Control Towers: The advancement of cloud-based, real-time technology in healthcare supply chains in Africa
To ensure product quality, supply chain managers require a system that enables them to track unit-level items, spot problems, find an optimised solution, communicate action plans and orchestrate a response, using the insights gained from the information the system provides. Business network technology enables this, and business network platforms such as One Network – indicated by Nucleus Research as the leading global control tower9 in terms of both usability and functionality – enable full traceability for every item from start to finish, providing visibility across final products, intermediates, and raw materials in real time from their source, across trading
One Network and NCMS Accelerate U.S. Air Force Logistics and Acquisitions
The Logistics Information Technology Innovation Team’s results were supported through a partnership with One Network (ONE), a global provider of a multi-party digital network platform and services, under NCMS’ Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) program. The NCMS charter and business model is tailor-made to help the Air Force evaluate innovative technologies that can provide transformational change more efficiently, with less risk, and at a lower cost.
