Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, A Fresh Method For Creating Supply Chains That Are Sustainable, Automated, And Agile
Even though supply chain disruption is nothing new, firms are losing ground to it because of how complex it is and how quickly things are changing. Many current solutions are not prepared to accommodate this new reality because they are too narrowly focused on supply chain execution and management. Businesses are working with petabytes of data that is dispersed across legacy systems, ERPs, and custom solutions, leading to a fragmented view of their supply chain.
The degree to which a business can integrate its data and coordinate operations across all pertinent systems in order to quickly react to shifting market conditions will define how agile and resilient its supply chain is. For supply chain software to be genuinely agile, it must improve data visibility across sources, anticipate and reduce interruption, facilitate collaboration, and safely and sustainably complete orders.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, combines the greatest Microsoft AI, collaboration, low code, security, and Software as a Service (SaaS) services into a composable platform to help businesses maximize their current supply chain investments.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform Is A Basis For Data And Supply Chain Orchestration That Is Open, Collaborative, And Comprehensible.
You will get a wide range of capabilities across Microsoft to enable businesses like Grupo Bimbo, Mercedes Benz, and Tillamook to create their own unique supply chain solutions. It will be simpler for clients to use the whole Microsoft Cloud to improve their supply chain with today’s announcement. The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform offers building blocks for clients to adopt capabilities that cater to their particular supply chain needs across Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, and the Power Platform. Customers can leverage Dataverse’s numerous data interfaces to obtain visibility into their supply chain and take action. Moreover, the Power Platform supports applications, data reporting, and bespoke workflows.
Collaborating To Restructure The Supply Chain So As To Empower Customers
The supply chain resilience and agility of customers will be enabled by the Microsoft partner ecosystem in the future. Using Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and the Power Platform in conjunction with the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, partners can develop integrated solutions.
Increasing organizational flexibility and productivity with the Microsoft Supply Chain Center
The Microsoft Supply Chain Center, which is currently accessible in preview, is at the heart of the Supply Chain Platform. For practitioners, the Supply Chain Center offers a “command center” environment where data from several supply chain systems, including Dynamics 365 and other ERP providers like SAP and Oracle, along with standalone supply chain solutions, may be unified. Data ingestion and orchestration are made possible with Supply Chain Center’s Data Manager, which gives insight across the supply chain and encourages systems of execution to take action.
What Will Be The Advantages Of Supply Intelligence
With supply intelligence, the supply and demand insights module predicts upstream supply limitations and shortages using cutting-edge Azure AI models. Companies can run simulations utilizing information from their supply chain network to anticipate running out on stock, having too much on hand, or having orders missed. Supply chain practitioners can make judgments and plan with real-world event information and historical insights for product demands when combined with smart news insights, which provide pertinent news alerts on external events in the Supply Chain Center.
Using real-time omnichannel inventory data, AI, and machine learning, the order management module in Supply Chain Center intelligently orchestrates and automates fulfillment utilizing a rules-based framework. By extending their capabilities with pre-built interfaces to specialized technology partners for order intake, delivery, and third-party logistics services, organizations may easily meet future order quantities and fulfillment complexity. Customers of Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management who already have an account will have immediate access to both the Supply Chain Center and the order management module.
Customers may reduce supply restrictions by working in real-time with external suppliers to acquire new supply sources, fix transportation challenges, and communicate upstream and downstream implications depending on changes thanks to secure, built-in Teams integration.
The Supply Chain Center’s partner modules make it simple for consumers to access specialized services like Overhaul’s freight visibility. No matter which module you use, the data remains consistent because everything is powered by Dataverse. By doing this, the need to repeatedly paste information and determine which reports have the most recent data is eliminated.
With Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and Dynamics 365, creating sustainable supply chains
One of the biggest opportunities for businesses to lower their carbon footprint is through sustainable supply chains. However, it is one of the most difficult areas to handle since decision-makers lack the information and understanding necessary to choose suppliers, routes, fulfillment, and products in the best possible way. Customers may make sustainable decisions on product procurement, package-free returns, transportation logistics, manufacturing and warehouse automation, among other things, by using features from Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Order Management in the Supply Chain Center.
With Microsoft, Reimagine Your Supply Chain
We think supply chain flexibility is essential for surviving in the current economic environment. This entails comprehending supply chain data and acting instantly based on it while using secure and ethical company procedures. We are eager to fulfill this initial pledge made to our clients and partners to rethink the supply chain.