The Supply Chain Control Tower Value Matrix 2020 from Nucleus Research, provides a snapshot of the market based on how vendors are delivering value to customers through the usability and functionality of their software.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for businesses to implement resilience and agility into their supply chain processes.
Decision-makers rely on control towers to predict delays and mitigate the downstream effects of external disruptions.
Originally, control towers were specialized to manage customer operations, but proactive planning and operational agility require visibility across multiple tiers of suppliers, distributors, and partner operations.
As a result, the market for control towers has begun to adjust to this need for end-to-end visibility by expanding the scope of their functionalities to take on additional operating responsibilities and drive increased value for customers.
Andrew MacMillan, lead analyst, Nucleus Research states;
“One Network’s global network lies at the core of its value proposition and underpins its unified planning and execution capabilities. With over 90,000 global businesses on their network, users have the opportunity of collaboration with every other party on the network and can form new partnerships easily, since required data streams have already been linked to the global network and can be shared through a permissibility framework. One Networks’ approach also enables business partners to improve performance in supply chain planning and execution. Forecasts and plans can automatically adjust to match supply with demand while balancing capacity constraints, costs, and service levels. In the event of a disruption, AI enhancements provide users with prescriptive actions and can make adjustments to execution processes automatically.”
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