Drive Supply Chain Agility Through Semantics

Today we have more data available than ever before, BUT it’s locked in 100s of systems preventing visibility and insight. And the hard-coded integrations can’t keep up.  Covid-19 exposed that the enterprise supply chain ecosystem lacks a connection between internal and external business ecosystems, leading to a slow and limited response to disruptions and market volatility.

True Supply Chain Agility decodes the real-time data across a 360 angle of the business and acts on those insights lightning fast 

We are in the early stages of digital transformation.  Lack of supply chain data is impacting business objectives like Customer Promise, Forecast Inaccuracies, Supplier Visibility, Perfect Production, Deliveries on time and in full, and Logistics optimization.

High volatility, lack of visibility, and a limited ability to use data are wreaking havoc on every supply chain.

The constant state of disruption unveiled that the current business ecosystem is architected for foreseen outcomes.  It’s time for your data to make a jailbreak out of the silos and increase agility by bringing meaning to the data and making systems interoperate 

Supply Chain agility can be achieved by taking the below measures: 

• Augment your existing ERP, legacy, and supply chain systems using metadata and semantic capabilities  
• Free your data with an agile unified data model that allows your team to access, leverage, and apply new information on the fly 
• Think beyond limited integration and go after interoperability 
• Enable self-learning and adaptive data models across multiple systems, data sources, and types of data 

A more agile unified data model augmented with automated semantics technology is a critical foundation for supply chain agility 

Enterprises should adapt to solutions that promote:  

• Development of Common Meaning to Business Data beyond Vendor Terminologies & System Functions  
• Dynamic Unified Logical Data Model that automatically interprets all data types back to business context (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to business insights) 
• Disparate Systems to Interoperate  

Mastering Data Agility delivers Supply Chain Excellence by:   

• Keeping customer promises by executing Alternate Sourcing, Planning Additional On-Hand Valid Inventories, and Reallocating Inventory from other Channels to excel on time and in full deliveries 
• Sensing market demands and supplier capabilities and preventing supply & demand volatility   
• Tracing partner performances on quality, delivery commitments, and plan

Enterprises that invest in data agility enable themselves to exploit new ventures in days & weeks.  

UCBOS approaches data agility by creating a “dynamic unified data model” ingrained with semantics.  

It is a lightning-fast enabler of digital transformation – with no coding required. It assists all enterprises to adapt to any ecosystem, from legacy systems to spreadsheets and new solutions and everything in between.