From real-time visibility to automation and machine learning

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.

Features

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.

Benefits 

• Improved Visibility: producing more accurate forecasting and shorter lead times (Nucleus Research)
•  8%: reduction in supply costs (Nucleus Research) 
•  30%: reduction in inventory levels (automotive company)
•  99%: case fill rates (CPG company)
•  2-10x: higher productivity with Developer Network tools