Supply Chain Optimization

This executive guide, developed in collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and Coupa, presents a vision for future-proof, analytics-driven supply chain design.

With so many companies feeling the urgency to build resilience and better manage risk, with all the growing pressure to operate sustainability and with greater transparency on how and where products are manufactured and sourced, and with today’s ease and ubiquity for connectivity and information at one’s fingertips, what is preventing supply chain visibility?

New technologies can be transformative, but only if three enablers are in place: high-quality and timely data from the entire supply chain, best-in-class decision support engines and a platform for enabling reimagined processes that break existing organizational silos.

In this Forrester Wave™ report, we take a deep dive into a 31-criterion evaluation of supplier value management platforms, we identified the nine most significant ones - Coupa, GEP, Ivalua, JAGGAER, Oracle, SAP Ariba, Workday, Xeeva, and Zycus - and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

After years of supplier shortages, demand fluctuations, increased operating costs, and liquidity pinches, supply chain leaders face a crossroads - either maintain the status quo and hope for the best or reevaluate their business model to ensure they can weather the next storm.

Today, visibility is not just a convenient systems upgrade, it’s part of a greater movement to adopt a more unified perspective of the supply chain, however, despite growing complexity, there’s still a lack of end-to-end visibility.

Manufacturers have become increasingly reliant on service providers to run their supply chains, these partnerships offer incredible advantages, but working with multiple enterprises also inevitably introduces risks.

In this informative and educational article, we explore the challenges restricting the full impact of data management in the supply chain, as well as the areas that benefit most from enhanced data management.

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.

The acquisition enables enVista to focus on the market for supply chain, enterprise business, and automation solutions and moves Kӧrber’s omnichannel and freight audit & payment strategy closer to becoming the global supply chain software champion.

This guidebook was designed to help supply chain leaders focused on customer and order fulfillment evaluate the benefits of automation solutions and their necessity when beginning a digital optimization project.

If you have a hodge-podge of IT platforms assembled over several years, either within your company or bolted on or into others, you know the term “multi-multi” problem refers to the conglomeration of IT solutions many companies operate under.

FedEx makes a strategic investment in FourKites, which FourKites will leverage to develop FourKites X to help transform global supply chains with volumes of data insights from both companies’ networks.

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?

This paper is a must-read for supply chain and procurement leaders who are looking to fortify their supply chains with greater resilience to disruption.