A Digital Control Tower to Monitor Your Entire Supply Chain
Predictive Alerting
GEP NEXXE’s digital supply chain control tower analyzes patterns from our vast data lake to identify potential detours in the supply chain. It then quantifies the business impact of these deviations, provides you with the ability to prioritize alert types and determines strategies to neutralize the impact of anomalies.
Situation Room
Deal with action items immediately and effectively with the power of collaboration. Keep track of problem sources, assign role-based teams, create action-oriented resolution objectives, and gauge the business impact of supply chain deviations in real time with other users.
Artificial Intelligence
Leverage the power of GEP QUANTUM — our proprietary artificial intelligence technology — with algorithms that self-correct and deliver actionable and nuanced insights into your supply chain. Driven by an autodidactic learning system that harnesses our vast data lake, these insights will increase in accuracy with time.
Scalable Architecture
Platform-wide API exposure allows for the seamless sharing of data between GEP NEXXE and legacy ERPs along with the ability to incorporate the future technology into the product without worrying about legacy elements hardwired into the software. Easy deployment and integration with data visualization tools and different SAP modules.
Action Status Tracker
Gain real-time visibility on the current status of an individual action in the Situation Room as a function of their relationship to resolution objectives. Gauge the business impact of actions and determine the best course of action moving forward.
Recommended Actions
GEP NEXXE — powered by our proprietary AI technology — provides users with recommended actions based on contextual and historical information and will help determine the business impact on the course of a potential direction. Improve planning productivity and drive value with accurate forecasting.
MANAGE YOUR ENTIRE SUPPLY CHAIN FROM ONE PLACE WITH GEP NEXXE CONTROL TOWER
- End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
- Data Workflow Management
- Complete Digital Collaboration
- Easy-to-Use Platform
- No Impact to the Business Operation
- Flexible and Adaptive to Your Needs
End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
Gain end-to-end supply chain visibility with real-time status updates on customer and geographic hierarchies. Collaborate with supply chain partners and allow them to work with multiple internal teams to execute individual actionable objectives.
Data Workflow Management
GEP NEXXE makes your data work for you by creating and enforcing rules for data validation and accuracy powered by machine learning. Track orders through every stage of the supply chain with granularity about every inventory item. View data on a location, project and time level, all from one place on the platform.
Complete Digital Collaboration
Situation rooms facilitate collaboration between employees to resolve action items and enable flexible role-based team assignment. Work with supply chain partners for real-time updates and allow suppliers to collaborate with multiple internal teams. Share attachments to ensure complete information clarity.
Easy-to-Use Platform
Eschew the need for specialized IT teams or consultants with a platform that can integrate multiple ERPs and unlock the full potential of your data. No coding knowledge needed. GEP NEXXE empowers your enterprise’s IT organization, improves planning and productivity – and accelerates the implementation cycle.
No Impact to the Business Operation
GEP NEXXE is easy to integrate and easier to use. With zero downtime and no on-site installation necessary, there’s zero impact to your business. GEP NEXXE is built for the cloud on Microsoft Azure, the most agile, flexible and secure platform around. Manage multi-region hosting and ensure global visibility and collaboration.
Flexible and Adaptive to Your Needs
GEP NEXXE is built on a floating foundation of data which enables the platform to adapt to specific business requirements and release individual functions without having to deploy the full solution. Deploy GEP NEXXE to suit the exact needs of your supply chain organization and seamlessly extract data from your ERP system.
Frequently Asked Questions
A supply chain control tower is an end-to-end, central data hub that primarily provides real-time visibility across the entire supply chain. The control tower provides a holistic and centralized view for supply chain stakeholders — from trading partners to suppliers to logistics partners, down to real-time visibility of supply chain status and activities.
A supply chain control tower allows for a single version of truth across functional boundaries, and across suppliers, contract manufacturers, transportation carriers, and third-party logistics, so that supply chain teams can take the best actions collaboratively.
The three essential capabilities of a supply chain control tower are:
- To provide real-time visibility across and between disparate supply chain functions and partners
- To promptly establish the business impacts of deviations from what was planned
- To orchestrate corrective and collaborative actions between all appropriate stakeholders
AI- and ML-enabled supply chain control towers offer predictive/prescriptive alerting and analytics, scalable data architecture and data lake, as well as automating and tracking the resolution and actions taken. They enable multi-tier supplier ecosystem collaboration.
- Combining these capabilities and more, self-tuning autonomous supply chains platforms are the future where the supply chain control tower will play a key role by further improving its proactive problem-solving capabilities and build efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains.
- The end result is enhanced supply chain collaboration, better risk mitigation capabilities, and on-time delivery.
With increasing complexities in global supply chains, enabling real-time decisions is becoming critical to functioning. Implementing a supply chain control tower involves a complete supply chain assessment to help find and fix gaps in an enterprise’s supply chain, thereby helping the enterprise to define the business objectives of the control tower. Once the parameters and objectives are defined, the control tower can keep track of problem sources, determine the impact of any deviation in real time, and accordingly create resolution objectives.
Supply chain control tower software is capable of analyzing and integrating multiple data streams across the supply chain. It enables enterprises to gain real-time visibility into inventory, orders, shipments, and disruptions with the help of interactive dashboards and analytics. The end result is enhanced supply chain collaboration, better risk mitigation capabilities, and on-time delivery.
As the name suggests, a supply chain control tower acts as a central command center that enables complete visibility, collaboration, and analytical capabilities necessary for enterprises to manage supply chains effectively. Benefits of supply chain control tower include:
- Increased visibility
- Improved decision-making
- Enhanced collaboration and coordination
- Risk mitigation and exception management
- Optimized inventory management
- Improved customer service
- Cost savings and operational efficiency
- Scalability and agility
A control tower centralizes data integration and analysis, which in turn enables enhanced supply chain visibility. By aggregating real-time information from various sources, a control tower is able to provide a holistic view of the entire supply chain. Furthermore, supply chain control towers can now leverage advanced analytics and AI to forecast disruptions and demand fluctuations in order to enable proactive decision-making.
A control tower with its ability — to monitor performance metrics, manage exceptions, optimize inventory as well as track multiple shipments in real time — can enable enterprises to proactively identify risks, evaluate supplier performance, and arrive at data-driven decisions. Implementing a control tower can unlock end-to-end supply chain visibility, helping enterprises bring agility and efficiency in supply chain operations.
