5 Supply Chain Network Design Game-Changers
Here are 5 of the most impactful supply chain design possibilities made possible by modern cloud technology.
They say, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you,” but when it comes to cloud-native supply chain design solutions, it turns out what you don’t know can actually hurt your business—at least when it comes to staying competitive. If your competitors are already using new cloud-based supply chain network design tools to maximize their profitability and you aren’t yet, they have a competitive advantage and it’s time to dive into the exciting possibilities they present.
Supply chain design empowers businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk, enabling them to design resilient supply chains even in the most dynamic and challenging environments. When you put this powerful technology in the cloud, it’s a real game-changer.
Below are five of the most impactful supply chain design possibilities made possible by modern cloud technology.
1. Get Anywhere Access
Modeling, optimizing and simulating complex supply chains used to require powerful machines and IT-assisted solver set-up and configuration. Thankfully, supply chain design is no longer tied to sluggish desktop machines. By leveraging a cloud-native design platform with advanced solvers, users can now tackle even the most challenging supply chain inquiries from anywhere, whether in a meeting room, a coffee shop or even across the ocean. In an increasingly complex and virtual world that doesn’t wait for anything, ensuring a company’s supply chain design team is empowered to address pressing inquiries and challenges in real time, from anywhere in the world, is critical. If they are desktop-bound, they won’t be able to keep up with the cloud-driven competition.
2. Easily Collaborate and Share Solutions
Similarly, many supply chain design teams are now spread across the nation—if not the globe—rather than together, in a single office. Cloud-based solutions make it much easier and more efficient for them to seamlessly share solutions and collaborate with each other in real time. Modern cloud-native design makes it easy to collaborate on data and the outputs of these models, both internally and externally, if you’re working with consulting partners and suppliers. Models and metrics are easily updated, and you have visibility to define what works on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
Practitioners can connect to external data and create dashboards representing their unique metrics and KPIs via direct cloud connections, so consumers of the dashboards have immediate visibility. You can now connect the organization much more efficiently and accurately than legacy technology.