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Pepsi Bottling Group approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a daunting challenge: consumer preference was shifting from carbonated drinks to noncarbonated drinks and from cans to bottles.

We prepared this whitepaper to give you more detail on the principles and framework we use with customers to help them segment and reduce the complexity of their value chains.

Deploying analytics to make business decisions is generating tremendous interest and results for companies. The ability to make decisions based on data is particularly important in supply chain and operations where the tradeoffs are complex.

Schneider Electric calculated the difference with traditional single location methods and found out they could save 11%, but with multi-echelon inventory optimization they could save 30%.

With a multi-tier network of three plants, four Distribution Centers (DCs) in the US serving both the US and Canadian markets, 450 finished goods and 1781 components and raw materials, this was not something that could be done easily.

Everyone seems to be aware of supply chain risks now in the aftermath of last year’s tsunami in Japan followed just six months later by heavy flooding in Thailand. The two natural disasters had a combined cost to global industries of nearly $230 billion. Worldwide, natural disasters cost $310 billion according to the insurer, Munich Re.

This “Control Tower” dashboard should be accessible to any authorized person in the organization to constantly monitor and respond to events as they occur, monitor supplier health and performance, assess the effectiveness of mitigation activities and continuously improve your operations and exposure to risk.