There are many supply chain Control Tower options on the market, but they don’t all offer the same capabilities. In today’s increasingly demanding, disruptive, and evolving climate, businesses need a supply chain solution that enables systems unification, network-wide collaboration, and process convergence.
Most Control Towers only span transportation management, and it’s common for systems to cover planning or execution, but rarely both. This fragmented approach creates a disconnect between business processes; when optimization is segmented across the supply chain, decisions within each area (whether inventory, returns management, or downstream flows) will often conflict and diminish a company’s ability to strategize and optimize their supply chain as a whole.
Next generation Control Towers recognize the supply chain as a complex ecosystem. Their focus is not to improve one area of the supply chain – such as logistics – but to blend order and logistics management to optimize end-to-end orchestration. To truly meet the demands of the modern supply chain, minimize risk, and maximize revenue and business growth, Control Towers must be holistic solutions that connect the full supply and demand network.
Resilience today calls for a configurable system that will continuously reflect criteria and constraints. It calls for intelligent automation, so businesses can stay agile and swiftly adapt to changes and exceptions as they occur. In a fast, demanding world, resilience requires a system that is less restrictive: one that handles all modes, order types, and flows.
This white paper details the key differentiators of a Control Tower for Orchestration and how it provides extraordinary business value to global supply chain leaders. From optimizing complex product flows to the solution’s unique ability to arrive at a cost-to-serve figure, here are five ways the Control Tower will revolutionize the way you do business.
