Supply Chain Cloud Platform

A global cloud platform for multi-party orchestration enables intelligent and optimized supply chain management:

• Holistic supply chain planning and execution across internal functions and coordination across external parties.
• Flexibility and agility to respond quickly and strategically to unexpected events and changing conditions and requirements
• Real-time visibility to continuously assess requirements and constraints across supply chain networks
• Real-time communications and coordination to be responsive and accommodate or adapt to ever-changing needs and conditions
• Flexibility to innovate, scale, and optimize fulfillment processes.

For supply chain technology to truly leverage the multi-party network as a whole, it must
enable systems unification; in-app, network-wide collaboration; and intelligent and automated process convergence:

Systems unification – Unless disparate systems are all joined through a single, unified platform, your network will operate in silos, which leads to errors and delays.

Intelligent, network-wide collaboration – Collaboration must extend across the entire ecosystem, including suppliers, contract manufacturers, VMI specialists, 3PLs, and warehouses. Supply Chain Orchestration must also offer real-time alerts, status monitoring, and in-app exceptions management.

Intelligent and automated process convergence – All network flows, processes, and functions must be viewed and treated as part of a greater business ecosystem. Therefore, visibility and control should span all order types, as well as all upstream, downstream and reverse flows. For efficiency and optimization, all converged flows should be further governed by intelligent automation.

Neutral, cloud-based, supply chain software supports real-time integration, so businesses can typically begin enacting transformative change and generating value within 2-4-month increments, with breakeven in less than one year.

As a unifying technology, no ‘rip and replace’ is needed; the MPO supply chain software will work with your legacy systems, as well as orchestrate across external parties. If you’re looking to create a standardized solution, but have multiple ERPs and WMSs running on different versions in different locations, the MPO supply chain cloud platform can create a standardized solution – such as a Control Tower or Transportation Management solution – across multiple different ERPs and WMSs in about half a year.

The platform enables you to consider your company’s priorities and begin with the most viable actions for improving them in the form of “business releases,” or deployment in several, quick iterations according to an agile implementation methodology. The agile approach creates immediate value within each short-term release – which, depending on the company, solution, and project scope, could occur every two to three months. Depending on your specific needs, that can mean getting an order and logistics management solution up before Black Friday or implementing a global Control Tower, Visibility, or TMS solution for improving the efficiency of transport flows across your supply chain network.

Delivering visible change and positive impact every quarter helps the board, your team, and especially your business partners stay energized and motivated by the initiative.

Analyst Nucleus Research has observed that companies using MPO can increase delivery speed by 10% and reduce overall supply chain costs by 5%.

For example, MPO enabled a logistics service provider to save their customer about $1.5 million a year. Through capabilities like dynamic, multi-leg carrier selection, in-transit stock visibility, order-splitting and consolidation, and dynamic invoice matching, their customer enjoyed approximately 5% cost savings across logistics, billing, and overall efficiency gains.

MPO partner Alkimius shared that, in their experience, a Control Tower and Supply Chain Visibility solution such as MPO's, saves on average 4-6% in manpower optimization, 3-7% from centralization and digitization, 5% from new transport opportunities, 3-5% in extra savings and efficiencies, and 1-3% from freight audit and payment capabilities.

While benefits will vary depending on such factors as company and supply chain size and digital maturity, broadly speaking, it's not uncommon for a mid-size company to see a 5% OTIF improvement, which could generate as much as 30 million additional revenue.