Is your supply chain causing you headaches?
Supply Focus, by Cubewise, merges best-in-class technology with years of experience in the industry to deliver a comprehensive SCM solution that provides unrivaled flexibility for all your end-to-end supply chain management needs.
Transform your results today with a sophisticated suite of tools that all integrate to take care of everything in one place. It’s your single source of truth.
Common challenges
Disconnected functions
With so many stakeholders involved in supply chain management, poor communication and incomplete integration can completely halt growth and waste time and resources.
Team Misalignment
trong supply chain management relies on alignment and communication between the demand, inventory, sourcing, production, and distribution teams, just to name a few. When these functions are disconnected, it results in duplicate data being held in different places and variety of manual processes that must be completed perfectly if they are to maintain data integrity.
Poor decision making
When misaligned functions are not working from a single source of truth, the data can quickly lose its reliability as people rely on different manual processes in different data environments. As a result, staff can end up spending many hours on low value added tasks rather than analyzing and driving the best possible outcome for the organization. All of this results in poorer operational decisions overall – which can be devastating for a company’s growth prospects.
Real-time collaboration
Supply Focus, by Cubewise, offers a full suite of supply chain management tools that are powered by IBM Planning Analytics / TM1. Our solution allows you to unlock the true power of visibility and gain complete control of your S&OP processes. Supply Focus’ technology and methodology ensures advanced collaboration across teams, minimal manual effort, and maximum value. It’s amazing what can happen when everyone is working from a single source of truth.
Big Data, small outcomes
A vast amount of data exists in the S&OP ecosystem, but without the right technology, it only causes confusion and overwhelm.
Transforming data into value
Your data is only as valuable as the insights you glean from its analysis. And in supply chain management, this is what separates good from great. Companies that don’t utilize purpose-built, unified technological solutions often find that they cannot effectively leverage their data for key decisions and suffer significant opportunity costs that give their competitors an edge.
Stymied by complexity
It’s important to drive insightful conclusions from an S&OP process. However, due to its complexity, the sheer amount of data involved, the time pressure, and the pace of change, this is very difficult to do. When decisions are made without harnessing the inherent complexity, it can cause mistakes that are not only damaging to the organization’s prospects, but are also notoriously difficult to identify and weed out.
Actionable insights
Supply Focus, by Cubewise, can help you leverage the power of IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 to build highly efficient processes and workflows that can transform your data management and analysis. Achieve much more accurate forecasts and optimize your decisions by harnessing your complexity rather than being overwhelmed by it. Once you’ve made the decision, then instantly monitor its impact through actionable insights, before iterating and improving once more.
Rigid supply chain
A rigid supply chain that doesn’t adapt to fast-changing circumstances and trends will eventually cripple an organization.
Lack of flexibility
Supply chains must constantly adapt and evolve to account for changing circumstances and market conditions. Those who don’t have the agility to do so risk becoming rigid and inflexible which leads to bottlenecks, misalignment, and a poorer customer experience. These can seriously harm growth prospects and increase customer churn rates at the same time.
Status quo bias
There are plenty of examples in the past two decades where companies stuck to the status quo and ignored the winds of change in their industry. This rigidity resulted in those companies becoming dogmatic in their approach and not adapting to changing conditions. This makes it easy for competitors to win market share, change branding narratives, and disrupt entire industries which previously seemed to favor incumbents.
Focused on agility
Supply Focus, by Cubewise, leverages IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 to provide infinite configurability, flexibility, and adaptability for your supply chain solutions. The dynamic database structure allows you to view your data from a number of different angles and drive higher forecast accuracy by leveraging advanced machine learning techniques. This allows for unlimited what-if scenarios which are invaluable for uncovering the full picture of your S&OP process and being ready for whatever your industry is going to throw at you.
Supply Focus – Industry-leading process excellence
Supply Focus is an all-in-one decision-making platform that enables organizations to drive digital transformation by unifying business intelligence, integrated business planning, and predictive analytics. Unlike other off-the-shelf solutions which dictate a specific way of working, the platform acts as a centralized environment on which to create and run fully customized business planning applications. Its fast, flexible, collaborative, and powerful interface helps organizations realize highly tailored business solutions and enable best-practice IBP approaches.
It’s the single best decision you’ll make if you want to transforn your supply chain management.
Talk to us today and let’s overcome the challenge together.
When a system is unable to adapt to changing business circumstances, it can be tremendously frustrating for all who work with it. Things must go on, of course, and so users will resort to building tedious workarounds, simplifications and shortcuts that only serve to kick the can down the road.
Don’t accept that your business processes are incapable of adapting to fast-moving market changes. Contact us to find out how easy it can be to implement efficient and practical planning, reporting and forecasting workflows.
