Automated Monitoring of Supply Chain Using Flow
Unity Central's patented approach visualizes your supply chain as sequences of time-ordered documents and events. Use Unity Central to detect anomalies and deviations, enabling quicker actions to enhance OTD metrics and customer satisfaction.
Flow: Real-Time Tracking and Detection of Supply Chain Disruptions
Unlike alternatives, Unity Central absorbs and understands structured and unstructured information, creating a comprehensive flow representing your supply chain functions. The Flow engine monitors deviations, classifying them as anomalies, chronic conditions, crises, opportunities, or expected outcomes. It calculates 'trust scores' for each step, flow, family of flows, and system.
Common Challenges in Monitoring Supply Chains
Unpredictability in the Supply Chain: Leads to low trust in on-time delivery, chronic dynamic conditions, SLA penalties, high costs, low customer satisfaction, and high inventory levels.
Delayed Awareness and Low Visibility: Lack of a central source of truth for order fulfillment; legacy supply chain solutions fail to process unstructured or unmapped structured data, missing critical insights.
Complex Data Integration: Companies face transformation efforts due to 'one-off' internal systems and the difficulty of mapping unstructured data to a unified data model.
Qualitative vs. Quantitative: Traditional tools focus narrowly on quantitative metrics and lack the capability to explain behavioral aspects like trust, credibility, or predictability.
Automatic Supply Chain Monitoring Capabilities
Flows are time-ordered sequences of data and events representing critical supply chain activities, such as Order Execution or Source-To-Pay. Key capabilities include continuously tracking milestones, generating real-time and proactive alerts, and managing branch and merge of supply chain events.
Example Flow Use Cases
Track Order-To-Cash Flows: Deliver the perfect order with the right price, quantity, timing, location, and cost.
Track Source-To-Pay Activities: Ensure the perfect order is placed with the right price, quantity, timing, location, and cost.
Drop-Ship Processes: Achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the drop-ship supply chain.