Supply Chain Management

Gaining competitive advantages through Supply Chain Management

According to a 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report, 60 percent of respondents say that IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) is creating a competitive advantage and disrupting supply chains. Of the 80 percent that say these solutions will be part of their supply chains in five years, only 20 percent say they are utilizing them today.

2018 Supply Chain Leadership Trends

According to a McKinsey report, only about 40 percent of businesses were digitized in 2016. New industry dynamics are driving supply chains to new levels, with digital transformations occurring across manufacturing sectors and into supply chains at every level.

The impact of Industry 4.0, trends and dealing with natural disasters

1.The Digital-Physical Blur
2.From Workforce to Crowdsource
3.Data Supply Chain
4.Harnessing Hyperscale
5.Business of Applications
6.Architecting Resilience

Companies that integrate digital technologies into their supply chain can quickly improve service levels while cutting costs up to 30%.

Factors such as IIoT, robotics, automation, predictive analytics, and even drones are optimization tools driving the supply chain into the future, expanding well beyond previous limitations and solutions.

Smart, connected supply chains

The future of Supply Chain Management

2018

2028

Our point of view: What supply chain executives need to succeed

•Digital technologies can transform the way enterprises operate and manage their supply chains

•Analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things can be used to collect and process information

•This can be done automatically to support decision making or facilitate automation

•Digital applications can improve service, cost, agility, and inventory levels

•Supply chain executives need to contend with an ever-expanding ecosystem of technology vendors and service providers

•Powerful analytical tools are needed for compiling large sets of unstructured data to extract useful insights

•AI applications can automatically trace performance problems to their root causes, predict declines, then recommend corrective measures

•Supply chain executives need to leverage the latest digital technologies to transform the way that their supply chains operate

•New order and distribution channels through B2B and B2C trading have posed new challenges to organizations and the way in which they manage their distribution network

•Smaller order quantities and increased geographic demand forces organizations to think about new and more dynamic logistic demands and delivery channels

For all the effort that companies have devoted to improving the performance of their supply chains, relatively few have unlocked the full potential of digital technologies

DXC’s SCM solutions: Harnessing the power of digital performance

Procurement
•Increase supplier collaboration
•Reduce procurement costs

Integrated Business Planning
•Improve decision making
•Access recommendations for how to deal with specific situations

Real-Time Analytics
•Extend the supply chain in
real time
•Increase reaction times
•Decrease downstream implications

Increased Customer Satisfaction
•Make customer experiences better by giving organizations
more control
•Provide customers with unprecedented transparency
•Send detailed updates about orders for direct customer channels

Data Sources and Management
•Collect and generate data- driven decisions to enable strategic and operational goals and vision

Automation
•Streamline the work of supply-chain professionals
•Focus on more valuable tasks
•Enable velocity and efficiency across SCM activities, including S&OP integration and workflow management

Rapid Delivery Freight and Logistics
•With distributed manufacturing and shared warehouse facilities, ship products more efficiently

DXC’s SCM solutions: Digital Supply Chain

Digital Technology

•Makes it possible for companies to comprehensively transform the way they operate and manage their supply chain
•Lets enterprises establish a vision for how digital applications can improve service, cost, agility and inventory levels
•Consistently implement process and organizational changes that use digital technologies to drive operational excellence

Digital Supply Chain Solution Features

•Digitized logistics:
̶SAP S/4 HANA POCs
̶Cloud-based solutions
̶Enhanced user experience
•Demand-driven supply chain
•Agility and interconnectedness
•DevOps opportunitie
•Enhanced customer interaction, production scheduling and delivery planning
•Integrated business planning
•Vehicle insight/transport management
•Global track and trace