Why Implementing a Supply Chain Control Tower Is Essential to Optimising Your Supply Chain
As a customer’s business grows, the complexity of managing its day-to-day operations increases. By implementing a supply chain control tower, the customer is not only provided with visibility into their operations, but will also be alerted to potential issues developing within their operations.
Inhance will assist its customers in designing and implementing a control tower that is tailored to the customer’s operations, ensuring tight control over their supply chain.
Defining the Supply Chain Control Tower
A supply chain control tower is a collection of people, data, processes and technology that, through end-to-end visibility, enables real-time decision making to reduce disruptions, improve performance, analyse and reshape the supply chain’s cost-to-serve, reduce operation turn-around-times, and ensure that all functions are operating in synergy with the correct capacity. It acts as a centralised hub where it is able to obtain, aggregate and store real-time data from various systems, providing the control tower with an overview of real demand and orders, inbound and outbound flows, vehicle availability and capacity, inventory levels and delivery ETAs.
Our supply chain control tower makes use of real-time data and end-to-end visibility to ensure real-time decision making across each function within the supply chain, from the planning phase to the execution of the operational processes. This results in streamlined supply chain operations, minimising the risk of process errors, incoherent data sources, delayed reaction times to disruptions, sub-optimal fleet optimisation and high distribution costs. Our objective is to provide our customers with the ability to quickly analyse and predict what will work most efficiently in their supply chain.
The three major benefits of streamlining your supply chain control tower systems are that predictive decision making is improved, waste is reduced, and operational costs are lowered. It also offers extensive operational visibility to all stakeholders involved in the company, increasing transparency and accountability – all while providing a more accurate and holistic view of how well operations are flowing.
How Our Services Can Assist You
Here at Inhance, we have a comprehensive range of services that will contribute to effective management, control, and decision making. This is done through live reporting as well as exception-based monitoring and response. These services include:
- Real-time data flow through integrated dashboards that offer an extensive overview of KPIs and your system’s metrics.
- Quick and easy functionality alerts through solutions such as push email and messaging applications.
- Machine-learning that effortlessly enables rules engines and autonomous response actions.
- When weaknesses in the system are found, corrective action is driven and analysed through system-driven workflows.
- Accurate business metrics and big data sets can be viewed and monitored on a consolidated, comprehensible platform.
- Supply chain control tower systems easily integrate with field data as well as GPS and IoT devices for real-time transaction status updates.
When it comes to these systems, we also offer consulting and design to ensure that the solutions you implement are tailored to your organisation’s specific needs. Through data and process review, we will carefully examine what your business operations require to take you to that next level of success. For intelligent, agile, and sustainable business solutions, contact us today.
Sources:
https://inhancesc.com/supply-chain/
https://logisticsinsights.agility.com/smart-shipping/what-is-a-supply-chain-control-tower/
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