Autonomous Control Towers in Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Chains

Summary of Challenges

The Retail and Consumer Goods supply chain may have thousands of locations and even more supply chain professionals and partners, delivering thousands of SKUs to millions of customers, across countries around the world.

This in itself is a major challenge. Thus, organizations are adopting digital initiatives to improve competitiveness and business performance, but are faced with some serious challenges:

• Current systems cannot keep up with the ‘Now’ paradigm: eCommerce and real-time responsiveness and collaboration
• Consumer-driven requirements are beyond understanding point-of-sales (POS) data
• Effectively competing with ecommerce giants
• Achieving a common data set and business view across multiple enterprise systems, including ERP, SCM, and SRM systems
• Sharing of executional data to coordinate operations both internally and across their many suppliers, contract manufacturers, and service providers are resource-intensive and hard to scale
• Lengthy and costly data harmonization and ERP projects make deployment of new processes and business models difficult or even impossible

How a Multi-Enterprise and Autonomous Supply Chain Control Tower Can Help

One Network’s Multi-Enterprise Networks have proven successful across retail, CPG, healthcare, pharmaceutical, food service, manufacturing, automotive, high tech, aerospace, logistics, and government sectors while empowering partners to better serve their customers.

Retail and Consumer Goods companies leverage the One Network Real-Time Value Network™ (RTVN™), to rapidly achieve accurate real-time information, optimization, and collaboration across a diverse set of trading partners and their systems to improve on delivery performance.

This enables them to reduce lead times of the entire supply chain, as well as to attain world-class efficiencies and resiliencies. For example, One Network optimizes, automates, and tracks execution of the entire inbound and outbound logistics lifecycle, from order to delivery, for a global, multi-modal, multi-leg network of thousands of transportation providers.

One Network Enterprises (ONE) has been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Networks. ONE is also rated as the leader by Nucleus Research, in the Autonomous Control Towers category for the fourth straight year. To enhance the customer-driven business network, One Network brings unprecedented resiliency, efficiencies, and shared business benefits to the entire network of retail companies, CPG companies, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and logistics service providers.

The Control Tower and RTVN™ coordinate business processes across multiple parties and systems, increasingly leveraging new technology while empowering legacy systems, to deliver optimal results as quickly as possible.

This approach ensures that the daily, weekly, and monthly work investment is focused on your organization’s most strategic and tactical objectives and is done in the most efficient way.

Supply Chain Control Tower

One Network enables all four levels of supply chain control tower deployment, from visibility, collaboration, autonomous decision-making to advanced cognitive capabilities.

The Control Tower solution synchronizes and coordinates all parties and systems around a Single Version of the Truth (SVOT), eliminating blind spots, and providing a solid foundation for optimization, decision-making, collaboration, and automation. It includes functionality that complements One Network’s integrated and autonomous supply chain planning and execution.