Segment the Supply Chain for Automation
As they were implementing ParkourSC’s digital twin platform, they found they were spending too much time and resources on planning, managing and solving supply chain issues on low-profit products. Executives sought to shift the focus of the expert supply chain, planning, and operational teams so that more time is allocated to high-growth and high-profit product streams.
About 10% of their product portfolio provides 80% of the overall profit. So they are starting to use ParkourSC’s workflow engine to create business rules to handle and resolve issues with the lower-profit product streams while their team focuses on the higher-profit product streams.
These automated workflows can send alerts to relevant departments, 3PLs, 4PLs, warehouses, distributors, and carriers about issues that they can solve without any human intervention. Instead of having a person see the issue, try to get a hold of the third-party company to have them fix it and then call back to see if the issue was fixed. With the ParkourSC operations platform, the information is all in the dashboard for the entire supply chain to view and act upon. Visibility to all creates an immediate bias for action.