Control Towers

AlixPartners Disruption Index found that today eight out of ten say they need to diversify their supply base; similar numbers say they need to invest in AI solutions to combat supply chain disruptions, and three in five worry that supply chain disruption will put them so far behind their competition that they can’t catch up.

The supply chain is comprised of the market and socio-economic-political conditions, but it is also comprised of people, people who can intelligently plan and continuously optimize execution across the network to enable your company to be resilient.

For logistics service providers, expanding into new markets and geographies can mean competitive differentiation through diversified product and partner portfolios, but business growth, especially through enlarging networks, comes with its own complexities.

It’s easy to think of transportation visibility as supply chain visibility, however, transportation management is just one small piece of the puzzle, one activity in the greater supply chain, and most organizations realize that without multi-enterprise visibility, they stand little chance of true visibility success.

As a Kinaxis company, MPO highlights how businesses can activate supply chain concurrency from planning through last-mile execution, with purpose-driven sustainability in mind.

This white paper outlines the Control Tower for Orchestration’s key differentiators and explains how its unique capabilities help industry leaders dynamically and intelligently partner with their network to stay resilient, and adaptive, and better mitigate risk and impact.

Nucleus Research interviewed multiple MPO customers and found common benefits such as common multi-tier inventory visibility and improved route selection from a margin and service-level perspective.

This Nucleus Research paper reports on how the MPO cloud platform and how it improved service levels for its customers.

Control Tower technologies have and continue to evolve, solutions vary widely in scope and depth, with systems traditionally only spanning transportation functions, but next-generation platforms are taking a far more holistic approach.

When a multi-national FMCG Healthcare company approached DSV, a top global transport and logistics company, it had just opened a new warehouse, what the client needed was a concept DSV came to call freight management services.

This case story is about how DSV, a logistics service provider, used the MPO platform to optimize their healthcare industry client's complex Fast Moving Consumer Goods supply chain.

To better navigate vendor offerings, you need a thorough understanding of a control tower and its capabilities.

In this Value Matrix, Nucleus provides a snapshot of the market based on how vendors are delivering value to customers through the usability and functionality of their software, the Value Matrix also captures the direction vendors are headed relative to the rest of the market with respect to the investments they are making today that promise to deliver value in the future.

Established as a leading logistics service provider in LATAM, One4pl needed a single-source platform to support multi-modal, international inbound, and outbound flows to enable their global expansion throughout EMEA and Asia.

Digital control towers can empower executives to leverage data and make smart planning and execution decisions, virtually in real-time, but what exactly can the supply chain benefits and impact be for executives who implement control tower capabilities?