Supply Chain & Procurement
CORE MARKET FOR 2020
Supply Chains: Fundamental. Complex. Ready for Improvement.
Supply Chain and Procurement is the largest target for apparent value due to recent shifts in landscape and the availability of modern technologies.
Technological solutions are having major impacts on development, design, and management.
Automation, Intelligently Designed Allocations, and RDI are enabling long-term full eco-system deployments that can elevate Organizations to new heights while allowing Procurement Leaders to focus on adding reliable value instead of doing busywork.
IoT and Robotic Process Automation are presenting clearer interconnected solutions to day-to-day operation and fulfillment. This gives Supply Chain leaders clearer insights into procedural deployments.
Analytics and Visualization are allowing Supply Chain Operators and Procurement Officers to better respond to egress/ingress flows. Full control of operations and management allows Operators to leverage their experience and discover transformative insights into the chain.
Supply Chain Management
Enabling the C-Level.
Supply Chains are the foundation of the day-to-day operations of many globalized enterprises. However, their critical importance is often overlooked by executive leadership due to their complexity and dry nature — even while they remain one of the highest yielding investments available to C-Level leaders today.
How?
Modern design of supply chains prioritizes agility and resiliency due to RDI (Rapidly Deployable Infrastructure), thus changing the architecture of Supply Chain solutions to better utilize modern technologies.
Supply Chains are one of the fastest-growing regions of investment for C-Level Leaders.
These changes ultimately lead to increased delivery to customers and lowered operational and sourcing costs. Further value is enabled through modernization and with a clearer understanding and insights into the behavior of the Organization.
It’s Time to RETHINK YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
Navigating the complexities of Supply Management
Maintaining a long-term view through iterative solutions. When developing solutions for Supply Chain operations, it’s often a question of: What are the immediate and long-term goals?
New technologies are leading solutions:
Long Term
Legacy Modernization
Design more efficient infrastructure that integrates the full Organization – delivering cumulative value.
Active Artificial Intelligence
Warning Systems and Conditional Management based upon peer-defined goals from Operators.
Short Term
Visualization and Modeling
Quickly Define and Model the Full Chain to Resolve, React to, and Optimize upcoming bottlenecks.
Automation and Micro-services
Reduce Workloads of Actors to allow them to Focus on Adding Value and New Opportunities.
Present a Clearer Picture to Your Dependents
Supply Chain operators are a fundamental role in Organizations — often propositioning the C-Level for more resources to better serve the Organization in the long term.
Support and present the case more clearly to Organization Leadership through Visualization and AI-assisted Modeling based upon current Data Insights.
Services:
- Identify, Develop, and Enforce sourcing requirements and operational dependencies.
- Improve onsite production and relationships with suppliers through easier, more flexible practices and clear reporting and analysis.
- Leverage IDA (Intelligently Designed Allocations) and RDA (Rapidly Deployable Infrastructure) for both short- and long-term solutions.
- Maintain and Enforce Supplier quality and distribution through intelligent management systems and on-floor IoT.
- Re-Abstract and Architect the chain to be more resilient and agile, while reducing tech debt and expenses.
Procurement
Modern Treasure Hunters. Always seeking greater value.
Identifying, Integrating, and Managing new suppliers into the Supply Chain is an ever-shifting task. Procurement specialists understand the value of experience and insight when building relationships with a new supplier.
Identification
Risk vs. Reward.
Finding new avenues of sourcing is a talent all its own. However, many procurement specialists rely on their existing relationships or hard-won experience to target promising opportunities.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data are technologies that can take these performances to the next level.
Data-based approaches can be continuously searching for parameters to identify potential targets for Procurement Agents. Through integration with public records, industry databases, and online trends, spot new suppliers primed for making new relationships.
Services:
- Conceptualize, Create, and Deploy Intelligent AI to search for new Suppliers based upon specified requirements.
- Custom Platforms to Maintain and Manage potential suppliers to negotiate favorable agreements.
- Leverage legacy data for improvements to emerging markets to better capitalize on Procurement targets.
- Data Acquisition and Machine Learning applications to spot new trends for experienced procurement agents to follow up on.
Integration
Translating potential into deliverable value.
After discovering a new supplier, the process of integrating them into operations can begin. Don’t let your systems limit potential opportunities.
Newcomer vs. Established Supplier:
Newcomer Supplier
Potential breakdowns in day-to-day operations due to challenges of emerging market.
Poor stability and lack of formality as the Newcomer continues to scale.
Established Supplier
Re-work operations for internal use and now have deeply changed operational requirements.
Held captive by older requirements limiting innovation and solution deployment.
Procurement agents need to have their systems account for the various changes Newcomers and Established Suppliers.
Integrating these changes should be a simple process that gives clear visibility to the Procurement agent, allowing them to provide and generate clear reports and insights.
The Procurement Process must clearly represent the goals of the Organization. This includes bringing these suppliers into the fold of the Organization.
Services:
- Support in-field experience with intelligent systems and manage the Integration cycle in real time.
- Support the day to day through better optimization of the sourcing lifecycle via Automation and lightweight micro-service solutions.
- More quickly ingress new suppliers to your chain though better interfacing and reporting tools developed specifically for your needs.
- Visualization and Analytics integration of daily operations allows Procurement agents to have a live, comprehensive overview.
Management
Procurement specialists are familiar with the saying “when it rains, it pours.”
We would like to offer you all an umbrella.
Most of the time, spikes in demand or supply are due to outside circumstances. Agents must rapidly work against the clock and budget to ensure minimal disruptions.
Instead, Load Balancing and Responsive Vendor Networks can allow agents to weather the storm far more easily, with less impact and apparent risk to the Organization and operations.
Services:
- Responsive networks and load balancing to better manage ingress/egress. Saving dependents and maintaining operational lifecycle.
- Reactive on-floor systems design and IoT for a “boots on the ground” perspective – acquire a comprehensive understanding to act accordingly.
- AI assistant to help distribute load and recommend and assist Procurement Specialists to better find value throughout the chain.
- Automation and reduction of Tech Debt to satisfy reliable and agile Organizational targets.
ATTN Members of the Institute of Supply Management: Due to Covid-19, there is increased demand for our services. As such, we’re prioritizing ISM members. If interested, please reach out to: ism@dshgrp.com
In Response to COVID-19
Supply Chain Solutions are a complex interconnected system. Covid-19 has affected entire ecosystems and has put many Organizations to the test – testing resiliency, operations, and procurement solutions.
The market is being changed as new responses to the virus start to take clearer shape.
The importance of Relationship Building
Covid-19 has caused many supply chain operators to find new sources of procurement for the long term. Identifying new opportunities and negotiating resilient partner relationships is a priority in a post-Covid landscape.
China is being depreciated. Vietnam, India, and Mexico are on the rise.
Due to the instability of Chinese manufacture, many brands are re-purposing their tooling and sourcing to Vietnam, India, and Mexico to fulfill their future needs.
The most popular request for Supply Solutions: Agile and Resilient
Re-engineering existing supply chains and procurement procedures to support the rapid depreciation from multiple vendors. Analyzing, developing, and securing new systems for procurement is paramount to hitting long-term targets.