A supply chain control tower is your real-time, personalized command center, seamlessly connecting key data, critical business metrics, and events throughout your supply chain. With a supply chain control tower, organizations can gain unprecedented insights, swiftly prioritize tasks, and address crucial issues with heightened efficiency.

A supply chain control tower will empower your business to swiftly identify and resolve issues, effectively manage demand and disruptions, make faster and more confident decisions, enhance supply chain agility and resilience, and ensure compliance with regulations.

Companies with extensive and intricate global supply chains, especially those involving numerous suppliers, distributors, and logistics providers, can greatly benefit from using a control tower system. This system offers real-time visibility and control over the entire network, enabling them to optimize operations, reduce disruptions, and make well-informed decisions throughout the supply chain.

Supply chain control towers utilize both internal data, such as inventory levels, shipment tracking, and production schedules, and external data, like weather conditions, market trends, transportation costs, and geopolitical events. This comprehensive approach provides real-time visibility and supports informed decision-making across the entire supply chain network. This can include but is not limited to:

• Inventory data: Current stock quantities, demand predictions, lead times, reorder thresholds.
• Transportation data: Carrier efficiency, shipment tracking, delivery timelines, route optimization.
• Production data: Manufacturing schedules, machine conditions, production outputs. 
• Customer data: Order specifics, delivery locations, purchase history. 
• Weather data: Current weather conditions, potential storm disruptions. 
• Market data: Price changes, competitor actions, consumer trends. 
• Geopolitical data: Trade regulations, potential disruptions from political instability. 
  Sensor data: IoT data from sensors on shipments, warehouses, or equipment.

All industries, including retail, logistics, transportation, oil and gas, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and more.

Supply chain control towers are versatile tools that can manage various supply chain functions, such as production planning, procurement, warehousing, and shipping.

It collects data from diverse sources like barcodes, sensors, and IoT devices, analyzes it to deliver actionable insights and identify problems, leverages AI and machine learning to automate processes and prioritize issues, and offers a personalized dashboard featuring key metrics and events.

A supply chain control tower dashboard usually integrates with various systems throughout the supply chain, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), supplier management systems, and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. It also incorporates external data sources like weather and traffic updates to offer a real-time, comprehensive view of the entire supply chain operation.