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Discover how EY's Supply Chain Transformation solution can help your business move towards fully autonomous, connected supply chains that drive business growth.
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Operational resilience begins with the value chain. As a leading COO, you need to transform your organization’s rigid, linear value chain into an agile, networked ecosystem. There are three areas to prioritize for measurable results.
1. Create real-time, end-to-end visibility
Today’s technology allows you to cost-effectively build a virtual model of your physical end-to-end supply chain. Known as a digital twin, this virtual model gathers and connects data from various sources and systems across the supply chain network to create a virtual replica, containing the same supply entities, parameters and financial targets. Leveraging digital twins paired with simulation capability, you can then use control towers to make data-driven decisions using real-time data, improving agility in both sensing and responding to disruptions. With the accelerated speed of disruption today, simulations need to be repeated and acted upon continuously to manage the risks.
2. Develop resilient and sustainable sourcing
Resilient and sustainable decision-making relies on constantly finding the right sourcing balance. Diversity of sources can help maintain competitiveness. However, over-diversification can limit your ability to develop trusted relationships with suppliers. At the same time, vendor and geographic concentration could leave you vulnerable to disruptions such as vendor insolvency or civil unrest. Today’s volatile and ESG-focused environment demands prioritizing trusted partnerships and ecosystems to mitigate risk, improve operational assurance, and support sustainable strategies.
To know who to trust and where the risks are, you need a sourcing strategy that maps and tracks suppliers, facilities and products down to raw materials. This approach will help to improve operational transparency and traceability, and allow analysis of supplier compliance, KPIs and supply chain risks.
3. Build omni-capable networks
Delivering products and services when, where and how customers expect them requires agility and the right capabilities. This may mean fulfilling a customer’s need faster and cost-effectively from a store rather than a distribution center if it’s closer and has the inventory. Building the right distributed order management (DOM) capabilities coupled with digital control towers for Tier N visibility can help maximize the value of inventory through accuracy and visibility, positioning it where it’s most needed.