Solution Accelerator for Supply Chain Optimization
Are you struggling with blind spots in your supply chain? Do you find it challenging to have real-time visibility into critical operations like order processing, inventory management, and fulfillment? Poor visibility across your supply chain can lead to delays, inefficiencies, stock imbalances, and missed customer expectations. In today's competitive market, businesses cannot afford to overlook these critical bottlenecks. So how do you ensure you're fully optimized at every step of the way?
The need for supply chain operations analytics
Supply chain operations are complex, involving multiple applications and business processes that handle critical transactions across the entire order-to-cash cycle. Each stage, from processing purchase orders to managing inventory and shipping, relies on numerous interconnected layers—ranging from IT infrastructure, networks, and systems to the applications that drive these business transactions. Without comprehensive analytics, monitoring these layers and the critical data flowing through them becomes difficult, if not impossible.
Analytics solutions are no longer a luxury; they’re a necessity to monitor, optimize, and predict potential disruptions within your supply chain. Businesses need robust, real-time insights to understand how each piece of the puzzle fits together and to act quickly when issues arise.
How Splunk's Solution Accelerator for Supply Chain delivers results
Splunk’s Solution Accelerator for Supply Chain, available for free on GitHub, is designed to streamline the adoption of advanced analytics for businesses, empowering you with the insights needed to drive efficiency and predictability. The Solution Accelerator delivers a powerful set of tools to help you overcome challenges in supply chain visibility, inventory management, fulfillment, and more. Here’s what it offers:
- Reference architecture: A proven framework for implementing the Splunk supply chain optimization solution, tailored to your business needs.
- Data collection and processing technology add-on (TA): A tool that collects, processes, and normalizes critical supply chain data from multiple sources.
- Data models: Predefined models that process various types of supply chain system data, making it easier to perform deep analyses.
- Analysis queries and searches: Ready-made searches and queries to quickly uncover insights, identify anomalies, and track KPIs in real time.
- Dashboards and reports: Comprehensive, visual dashboards and reporting tools that give you a real-time overview of supply chain performance across multiple areas, from EDI transactions to inventory levels.
Use cases for supply chain optimization
The Solution Accelerator supports a wide array of use cases designed to optimize every aspect of your supply chain. These include:
- End-to-end supply chain visibility: Gain a unified view of your entire supply chain, from procurement to delivery, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks (available Q3).
- EDI transactions monitoring: Monitor the health of your EDI transmissions, ensuring successful communication between trading partners and preventing costly disruptions (available Q3).
- Inventory optimization and demand forecasting: Analyze real-time and historical data to optimize inventory levels, reduce waste, and forecast demand with greater accuracy.
- Fulfillment optimization: Monitor and improve order fulfillment processes to meet customer expectations while minimizing delays.
- Transportation and logistics optimization: Track and optimize shipping, transportation, and logistics operations to ensure timely deliveries and cost efficiency.
- Production planning and scheduling optimization: Leverage data to streamline production schedules, minimize downtime, and meet production targets more effectively.
- Supplier performance and risk management: Analyze supplier performance and identify risks in your supplier network to mitigate potential disruptions and improve relationships.
With real-time streaming analytics and the comprehensive supply chain optimization framework from Splunk, you can take control of your supply chain, reduce risks, and drive operational efficiency at every level.
Guided use cases
These guides take you step-by-step through setting up searches in the Splunk platform to monitor key performance indicators for your most important supply chain optimization business goals.
Monitoring purchase order life cycles
By leveraging electronic data interchange as the analysis data source, organizations can gain valuable insights into their PO processes, leading to improved decision-making and operational efficiency.
Monitoring electronic data interchange transmission and acknowledgement
EDI plays a critical role in ensuring that data flows seamlessly across various stakeholders. By continuously monitoring EDI transmissions and acknowledgments, businesses can proactively identify and resolve issues in supply chain operations.
Next steps
Visit the Solution Accelerator for Supply Chain on GitHub. If you need help or assistance with the Solution Accelerator, reach out to your Splunk Sales Team.