The Intelligent Control Tower monitors, manages, and controls decisions and
execution across functions and across companies to optimize the entire network.
The Intelligent Control Tower uses AI and serves as a system of engagement
across trading partners, and orchestrates companies, people and things to work
together in real-time to serve the end consumer.
Till date, Supply chain control towers have been all about providing
visibility to your immediate trading partners. But with the development of
multi-party, consumer-driven networks, advanced control towers now provide
real-time visibility, collaboration and powerful AI capabilities to move beyond
decision-support to decision-making and autonomous control.
Key Benefits of Intelligent Control Tower
Visibility
- gain real-time, end-to-end
visibility
90% - reduction in shortages/stock-outs 75% - reduction in expediting costs 100% - and more increase in inventory turns 100% - increase in on-time shipments
Key Capabilities of the Intelligent Control Tower
Control towers offer considerable benefits and capabilities, from end-to-end
visibility to advanced automation.
End-to-end Visibility – visibility
across supply chain partners, including suppliers, contract manufacturers,
transportation carriers, third-party logistics.
Collaborative information sharing – share
information and collaborate in real-time.
Early warning alerts and exception management – resolve
supply chain disruptions before they disrupt your business.
Predictive and prescriptive decision-support – using
predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Autonomous decision-making and control – take
the robot out of the human and boost productivity.
Cognitive – the self-correcting
supply chain with decision-making and machine learning.
The One Network Control Tower serves as a system of
engagement across trading partners and orchestrates companies, people, and
assets to work together in real-time to serve the end consumer more efficiently
and at a lower cost.
Executives,
departmental managers, and supply chain staff in global enterprises are using
the One Network Control Tower to monitor, manage, plan, and execute decisions
across their companies and with their partners. This
Control Tower can be configured for each role and function, including Transportation Management.
It can
aggregate data from your systems and your trading partners’ systems, to give
you the big picture of real-time demand, supply, and logistics, while letting
you drill down into individual orders and shipments when necessary. It
proactively alerts you to potential problems, their root causes, and
contributing factors, and makes recommendations so you can resolve them quickly
and efficiently.
You
can see the impact of a problem on sales and service levels, as well as the
cost associated with each proposed resolution, so you can make better and more
profitable decisions. You
will be able to collaborate with colleagues, and with your suppliers and
carriers, both domestic and international.
In
fact, the Supply Chain Control Tower excels in complex scenarios like
international, multi-leg, multi-modal moves.
§It can intelligently represent the legs,
based on Advance Shipment Notices provided by
suppliers, or based on shipment plans provided by Freight Forwarders.
§If a shipment is delayed, the Control Tower predicts the effects on the
following legs, the impact on the customer, and alerts managers.
§It includes Freight Auditing capabilities so that our
managers can inspect and verify freight bills for accuracy, and adjust them if
necessary.
And
when it comes to import-export documentation, the Control Tower automates
tiresome manual work, tracks customs hold and clearance events, and keeps
things on track by alerting us about upcoming tasks, missing documentation, and
milestones.
Visibility and control Over Inbound
Shipments and Outbound Freight:
Without real-time
visibility to inbound shipments, you don’t know if or when shipments will
arrive. You
may often find out that a delivery is late only after it doesn’t arrive. By
then it’s too late to do anything, and you’re forced into fire-fighting. This
increases workload and costs. It
undermines your customer service levels and erodes confidence in your brand.
The
Control Tower provides real-time visibility to orders and shipments, with
real-time tracking across all legs and modes, so you always know exactly what
is where and why. And if
something goes wrong, say a container is held up in port, or a truck breaks
down, you know immediately, you know its impact on subsequent legs and on the
customer, and what the options are to address it.
Artificial
intelligence will help assess the risk and costs involved with each
problem and the possible resolutions, so you can fix things with minimal
disruption and costs. Intelligent
agents can even execute their recommendations autonomously.
Intelligent Control Towers:
One Network’s
Intelligent Control Tower is not your typical control tower, that provides
visibility to immediate trading partners only.
The
Intelligent Control Tower monitors, manages, and controls decisions and
execution across functions and across companies to optimize the entire network.
The
Intelligent Control Tower uses AI and serves as a system of engagement across
trading partners, and orchestrates companies, people, and things to work
together in real-time to serve the end consumer.
Until recently,
supply chain control towers have been all about providing visibility to your
immediate trading partners.
But
with the development of multi-party, consumer-driven networks, advanced control
towers now provide real-time visibility, collaboration, and powerful AI
capabilities to move beyond decision-support to decision-making and autonomous
control. Intelligent control towers are helping
orchestrate entire value networks to run smarter and faster and delivering
bigger benefits for all trading partners.
Key Capabilities of the Intelligent
Control Tower
Control towers
offer considerable benefits and capabilities, from end-to-end visibility to
advanced automation.
Here are some
of the key capabilities to look for in a control tower solution:
End-to-end
Visibility – visibility across supply chain
partners, including suppliers, contract manufacturers, transportation carriers,
third-party logistics.
Collaborative
information-sharing – share information and collaborate in
real-time.
Early
warning alerts and exception management – resolve
supply chain disruptions before they disrupt your business.
Predictive
and prescriptive decision-support – using
predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Autonomous
decision-making and control – take the
robot out of the human and boost productivity.
Cognitive – the self-correcting supply chain with decision-making and
machine learning.
Today control towers provide powerful
capabilities and real-time responsiveness with autonomous problem-solving,
global demand-supply matching, and global available-to-promise, achieving
increased efficiency, resilience, and world-class performance.
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