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Lack of analysis tools of top-down perspective
Hard to comprehensively monitor and control from the perspective of supply chain strategy and operation.
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Lack of realtime end-to-end perspective
Hard to break through the data barriers of various business domains and form a unified end-to-end data perspective.
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Lack of monitoring of exceptions and risks
Hard to effectively monitor risks and anomalies in real time and analyze the impact, only "post-mortem analysis" can be done in most time.
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Lack of data supporting operational decisions,
Operational decisions are greatly depending on personnel experience.
Lenovo Supply Chain Intelligent Control Tower
- Lenovo's global supply chain intelligent control tower aims to provide real-time business operations status for various partners within the supply chain ecosystem through big data and artificial intelligence technologies, and conduct diagnosis and analysis, simulation and hypothesis, expected prediction, and assist in rapid decision-making for exceptions operating conditions. Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) always focuses on meeting customers' needs, integrates supply chain end-to-end process automation and management experience, and independently develops a global supply chain central management platform, continuously improves the intelligent operation level of global supply chain.
Industrial Pain Points
Enterprises lack an end-to-end perspective to connect the entire supply chain ecosystem network, with business systems developing in a 'stove-pipe' manner, resulting in inefficient collaboration. And lacking of unified management standard, leads to high communication costs across departments and organizations. In addition, enterprises lack effective exceprions and risks monitoring methods, resulting in insufficient supply chain agility and responsiveness.
Solutions
Based on generalized modeled business data and scenarios, Lenovo Intelligent Supply Chain Control Tower conducts exception monitoring and diagnosis, predictive simulation for supply chain operations to assist decision-making and closed-loop management. It is a global supply chain central management platform that integrates end-to-end supply chain management automation and process automation.
Core competence - modeling of business scenarios and indicator systems
Based on data governance, business scenarios and operational management scenarios are solidified in the control tower through abstracting and modeling business objects, business processes, business rules, and indicator system models.
Business benefits
Lenovo's supply chain intelligent control tower has actually helped improve the level of supply chain operations and effectively achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement for enterprise operations.
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Cost reduction
Through business functions such as redundant inventory consumption simulation, obsolete material consumption simulation, inventory amount proportion forecast, and logistics mode optimization simulation, the inventory management strategy is dynamically improved, the inventory management level is enhanced, and inventory and logistics costs are reduced by 20%
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Efficiency improvement
Through the connection of end-to-end supply chain data with orders as the main clue, we will enhance our supply chain operation insight and monitoring capabilities, detect anomalies in real time, and recommend optimization strategies based on supply and demand matching to improve the timely delivery rate of orders by 5%.
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Operation improvement
Based on the optimization of order processes and the improvement of order delivery efficiency, as well as the integration of order-related systems and data across the control tower, the overall cycle time for confirming and receiving orders has been shortened, and the global order-to-final payment cycle has been shortened from 7 days to 4 hours.
Lenovo's supply chain intelligent control tower positioning
Lenovo's supply chain intelligent control tower is the brain of the supply chain operation capability platform, which undertakes the data of various business domains, processes and analyzes them, generates supporting data for decision-making, and then feeds back to each business domain.
Customers industry
Lenovo's supply chain intelligent control tower is applicable to other industries, especially the following industries
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Discrete manufacturing
Discrete manufacturing often involves complex supply chain networks that cover multiple links, such as raw material procurement, production and manufacturing, logistics and distribution. The control tower can integrate data from these links, provide real-time information, help manufacturers better manage production processes, optimize inventory management, and achieve precise execution of production plans.
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Retail/FMCG industry
The retail/FMCG industry needs to meet market demand in a timely manner, with strict requirements for inventory management and logistics efficiency. Control Tower can help retailers achieve inventory optimization, reduce inventory backlog, improve delivery efficiency, and better meet consumer needs.
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Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Industry
The pharmaceutical and medical device industries require highly reliable and accurate supply chain management to ensure the safety and accessibility of medical products. Control towers can help monitor the flow of medical supplies, ensure the timely delivery of drugs and equipment, and improve management efficiency.
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Logistics and transportation industry
The logistics and transportation industry is facing increasing transportation demand and diverse types of goods. Control towers can optimize route planning, reduce transportation costs, and improve transportation efficiency, making logistics companies more competitive.
The indicator system covers the entire business domain
Not only tracking and monitoring the performance of supply chain operations from end to end, but also conducting in-depth assessments and analysis across various business domains.