"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

May 04, 2021

Supply Chain - Session #4 - Digital Supply Chain

Key Notes
  • Visibility during covid times
  • Measure value potential
  • Enterprise context order status
  • Mapped knowledge of Enterprise
  • NLP based search 

  • Detailed information flow of order
  • Google like queries on Enterprise data
  • Physical representation of supply chain


  • Plant, resources Trends
  • Digital brain of Enterprise
  • Planning, Supply chain tracking
  • Commercial, Revenue, Supply Chain Planning
  • Configurable platform / Packaged Solutions
Starbucks use case



  • Replenishment automation


  • Improve forecasts at starbucks
  • Include external factors, local events
  • Leading indicators for planning
  • Forecast + Drivers - Seasonality
  • Automated correlation for them



  • Special store ordering + Update + Comment
  • Planner to Store Manager collaboration

  • Interactive Portal
  • Simple and collaborative solutions
  • Legacy of i2 technologies
  • Native cloud based solutions
  • DBT

  • Pandemic has accelerated SCM
  • Pandemic Learning's

  • Demand variability
  • Trouble towards product visibility / demand
  • Channel shift - Phygital
  • Lockdown vs Opening up 
  • Supplier factor shutdown
  • Working on decreased capacity
  • Enterprise Collaboration goes digital

  • Capabilities in Platform to address challenges
  • Piece meal software 
  • Software DNA platforms are required
  • Digital Operating models
  • Amazon Model

  • Customer Engagement
  • Using it for Supplier Engagement
  • Knowledge base of Suppliers
  • Visibility across products / suppliers / customer demands
  • Current state of business

  • No Systems / 10 Different systems for RCA
  • Silo Systems
  • Decision making ends in excel and ppt
  • Slow adoption of Systems

  • Bring Consumer experience to enterprise

  • Missing similar experiences in Enterprise
  • Capabilities and Use cases
  • B2C Model
  • Opportunities with B2B Customers



  • Convert Knowledge to data is key
  • Best restaurants I have been to
  • Notion of continuous learning
  • Spot Reliable Suppliers by Automated recommendations
  • Customers for Upsell
  • Capabilities
  • Real time market knowledge
  • Leading indicator based forecast
  • Synchronize supply and demand plans - what if scenarios - sumulations
  • Cost impact for new demands/ financial implications


  • Data sources that power data driven decisions
  • Add nodes in graph dynamically

  • Network Graph relationships
  • Tags creation / product mapping

  • Considering competitor product knowledge
  • Weather impact
  • Initiatives / new product launch visibility
  • Sales and Operations planning reporting based
  • Demand planning opportunity

  • Collect external drivers
  • Competitor / Sentiment 
  • Public information
  • Google Trends
  • Demographic trends
  • Elders
  • Holiday Events
  • Sporting Events
  • Data collection for market knowledge
  • Overlay temperature for region
  • Promotion days
  • ISLE Promotion
  • Overlay and evaluate
  • Holidays



  • Digital Meetings






Gem of Session!!!

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