Supply chains are more complex today than ever before—in the drive to reduce costs and improve speed, businesses are integrating more upstream and downstream partners across multiple geographies. Supply chains no longer resemble a straight line that moves materials, products, and shipments along. Instead, supply chains have evolved into networks with complex relationships.
This increasing complexity has made it difficult for managers to get a clear view into the key factors of supply chain performance. This is resulting in outcomes like: increased costs from higher inventory levels, lower customer satisfaction due to late deliveries, and higher risk from disruptions such as a failing supplier.
Business intelligence improves visibility into the supply chain by aggregating information from different sources, providing automatically updated dashboards on key metrics, and easily sharing information with employees, partners, and suppliers.
With Birst you can:- Track upstream demand in real-time and share with downstream suppliers
- Monitor and optimize inventory levels to reduce FGI, increase turns and avoid out-of-stocks
- Report on shipments and on-time deliveries and work with carriers to optimize landed costs
- Reduce material lead times by sharing real-time forecasts with long-lead suppliers
- Help optimize supplier performance using a supplier scorecard
- Decrease overall supply chain costs through better inventory, supplier and carrier management
- Reduce risk exposure with better visibility across multiple levels of the supply chain
Birst easily connects to your supply chain systems and other applications to give you a true 360° view of your value chain
Birst can connect directly to your SCM, MRP, EMS, WMS and Shop Floor Control systems for inventory, shipment and materials data as well as to other systems like your CRM for early demand-side data and to 3PL systems like the UPS site to track deliveries.
Birst also allows you to easily share appropriate information with upstream and downstream supply chain partners. For example, you can share real-time opportunities and forecast changes with suppliers to reduce part lead-times or share on-time delivery data with carriers to help optimize their performance.
To learn more about how you can use Birst for supply chain analytics and reporting, contact the Birst Team. Click here.
