Continuous Supply Chain Design Outsmarts Disruption: An Imperative for Supply Chain Resiliency

A digital twin offers a visualization of the supply chain with nodes, modes, and flows. It also enables organizations to model the future using advanced algorithms. Its open architecture provides many benefits. The digital twin also enables an organization to democratize decision intelligence to users through apps, as well as provides the ability to augment data lake and planning investment. For more information, please download the e-book.

Stage 1 is called the Ad Hoc Design stage. At this stage you have only a retrospective view of the supply chain and changes are made in reaction to a supply chain disruption. In Stage 2, Episodic Design, a supply chain design organization exists, but it is not involved in scenario planning and works offline as requests come in from the organization. In the third stage, the Democratized Design stage, organizations start to design online and are developing proactive and dynamic supply chain design processes. Stage 4, the Synchronized Design & Planning stage, has a full digital twin of the supply chain in place. Finally, in Stage 5, called the Dynamic Design stage, the organization has achieved continuous design, fully integrating the strategic, tactical, and operational horizons. For more detail, please download the e-book.

In the future, organizations’ Supply Chain Design & Planning processes will adopt Continuous Supply Chain Design and Planning, they will complement existing systems with artificial intelligence and Outside-In Data, they will make more automated and faster decisions, they will democratize apps to the teams in the rest of organization, they will gain proactive insights from a Supply Chain Digital Twin, and they will adopt capabilities aligned to their business priorities.