Adexa Supply Chain Planning Blog
Are You Ready for a Supply Chain Control Tower?
Supply chain control towers are designed to improve supply chain visibility and enhance the quality of the decisions made across different business processes in the company. Control towers, if implemented correctly, can also reflect the financial consequences of your operational decisions.
Beyond Centralized Supply Chain Technology
With very few exceptions, existing S&OP solutions rely on a centralized application in order to provide visibility and plan operations of the supply chain. There are a couple of major flaws with this approach: they are too big and slow to handle data granularity and frequency.
The Myth of Concurrent Computing vs. Distributed (Edge) Computing in Supply Chain Planning
So called concurrent computing has been used in the context of supply chain planning applications recently. It implies that somehow the system concurrently plans everything including sales, operations, capacities, suppliers etc. all at the same time.
The Role of Time & Space in Building Resilient Supply Chains
As we all know, light travels fast but at a finite speed. As a result, what we see or hear happened in the past. In most cases we call it real-time because our senses do not detect the latency. Our senses and analytical skills are very slow compared to what technology can offer.
Dependable Financial Projections Hinge on Accurate Models of Supply Chain
Every plan, at high level or execution level, needs to be accurate enough to project true financial implications. Whether you are doing network design, inventory optimization, S&OP or even S&OE, Adexa solutions enable financial projections at greatest level of accuracy.
Unless Supply Chain Plans are Accurate, then Why Bother?
Most companies choose their supply chain planning vendor based on how nice it looks but pay very little attention as to how good the quality of plans are. Not all planning systems are created equal. Yes, every planning company can produce a “plan.”
Just Add Data – Not Another System
Having S&OP and S&OE as two separate systems does not make sense, it is redundant and costly. Having two systems implies two disjoint systems that do not understand each other’s data model. This results in wrong projection of output, missed delivery commitments, too much inventory and misleading financial projections.
A Supply Chain Digital Twin is No Twin without Attributes
Building a digital twin of your supply chain simply means building a digital model of your supply chain. S&OP solutions do that by making approximations of what the physical supply chain looks like. It gives the appearance of a twin but a fraternal one at best.
Resilient Supply Chain Planning, Opposite of Response Planning
Supply chains need to be digitalized to become resilient not to just react and respond. Predicting potential issues and being ready is very different from virtually running around performing what-if this and what-if that!
Stochastic Planning – A Shift in Paradigm from S&OP
With stochastic planning and ability to learn patterns of behavior we are at a point to know the exact availability of resources, tools, customer and supplier behavior as they change in different seasons, with events or other social and environmental factors.
