No Need To Change Existing Systems,
Service Providers, Or Institutions
The INSTANT Supply Chain
Global Supply Chain Insights In Real-Time
The INSTANT Supply Chain
Feature Overview
How The INSTANT Supply Chain Feature
Can Bring Value To Your Global Organization
The INSTANT® Supply Chain Management Solution represents the next generation of SCM. By providing real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and integrated planning capabilities, INSTANT enables businesses to navigate the complexities of modern supply chains with confidence and strategic insights. With INSTANT, companies can achieve both transformative growth and sustainability in their supply chain operations.
Enhanced Real-Time Visibility and Control
Feature Description: Leverages IoT devices, GPS tracking, and cloud-based platforms to offer a granular view of the supply chain in real-time, from raw material sourcing to final delivery.
Business Benefits: Achieves up to 35% faster decision-making by gaining immediate access to data, leading up to a 25% potential improvement in delivery efficiency, significantly decreasing late shipments, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
Proactive Disruption Management
Feature Description: Utilizes advanced analytics and generative AI to predict potential disruptions in the supply chain, from weather events to supplier bankruptcies, enabling preemptive action to mitigate impact.
Business Benefits: Reduces the frequency and impact of supply chain disruptions by as much as 45%, resulting in an up to 30% potential decrease in associated costs related to expedited shipping, inventory shortages, and production delays.
The INSTANT Supply Chain
Smarter Supply Chain
Optimize SCM – INSTANT Data and Analytics
INSTANT enables you to take proactive control of your operations, with detailed information about all of your products – and their corresponding inventory levels – in real time. For example:
- A company in Ireland can see details (at the SKU/invoice level) about a specific transaction – as it occurs –in its Mumbai location, and that information is instantaneously visible – along with all “domino” effects on other systems/parts of your organization (such as cash, inventory, logistics, etc.)
- INSTANT’s first-of-its-kind, real-time visibility puts control in your hands.
INSTANT provides an operating platform that includes marketing performance and demand perspectives to provide this unprecedented level of real-time insight. Proprietary algorithms focus on the key drivers with financial impact. All key factors – such as revenue, cash flow, currency exchange, shipping, order fulfillment, asset deployment, utilization, and others – are systematically tracked within the INSTANT platform.
Centralized Data
INSTANT operates as a comprehensive, integrated, and intelligently connected repository for all of your corporate information, including real-time data about supply and demand dynamics. INSTANT receives and compiles data as it’s generated from your global supply chain, and automatically delivers it in a single, standardized format. With one click, forecasting becomes more accurate than it’s ever been … and just-in-time (JIT) production and logistics become much more achievable.
- By serving as a centralized “data hub” for your global operations, INSTANT gathers, sorts, and displays real-time information from silos within your legacy systems.
- INSTANT removes data latencies within legacy supply chain systems and policies, facilitating strategic action that’s focused on objective-based outcomes rather than break/fix reporting.
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Advanced technologies like AI and ML can make supply chain management (SCM) significantly more robust. For example, with these enhancements, you’ll be able to incorporate exponentially more data, leverage better data analysis, and execute faster, more automated processes.
In addition, INSTANT incorporates specialized technology capable of handling data related to the Internet of Things (IoT). This capability continuously reviews unstructured information from across your enterprise for potential impacts that might otherwise go unnoticed. Once the system identifies potential events as relevant, it deploys Intelligent Markers to be used as reference points for INSTANT’s advanced AI.
These self-learning capabilities also expand your company’s set of referenceable information, which will enable more automated decision-making throughout your organization. Some key areas this might impact include:
- Demand Sensing: INSTANT’s ML enables your strategic planners to detect patterns among Intelligent Markers throughout all phases of a product’s lifecycle. This results in better ordering decisions – through trending analysis of Trade Performance Management indicators – and enhances your ability to make proactive decisions about your entire supply chain (including logistics).
- Performance Analytics: INSTANT’s ML also allows your key stakeholders to review multivariable data sets about unconventional items — weather patterns, competitor sales, and even economic indicators — each of which can substantially improve your demand forecasting accuracy.
- Exception Processing: As your company grows, so does the anticipated number of supply chain exceptions and disruptions that you must address – which can be an overwhelming challenge. However, INSTANT’s ML capabilities can automatically detect anomalies, analyze exceptions, eliminate false positives, and prioritize critical business tasks. As a result, you can rest assured that you’re on top of whatever considerations you need.
Harness INSTANT’s SCM Technology
INSTANT®’s advanced analytics and integrations provide insight into key strategic outcomes and performance indicators. This information and resulting actions can be automated and customized to ensure that desired efficiencies and outcomes are achieved.
With INSTANT, organizations can – for the first time – experience true real-time analytics. INSTANT monitors your transactional data streams; its intelligent markers will identify potential problems. In this way, INSTANT can reduce – and in most instances, eliminate –supply-side delays that can impact your partners and customers.
Success – Simplified
With INSTANT, all business drivers are dynamically monitored as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and displayed in real-time (as shown in the example image of a Sales dashboard). With INSTANT’s built-in (yet customizable) dashboards, you’ll gain immediate insights, with the ability to perform “what if” scenarios based on different sets of assumptions.
INSTANT triangulates your forecasts with detailed historical data. Using pattern analysis, it enables you to develop targeted marketing initiatives for increased traction and success.
INSTANT’s comprehensive, integrated environment makes optimizing logistics and asset management more attainable, enabling key stakeholders to make better strategic decisions about their supply chain network.
Supply Chain Awareness
INSTANT’s feature-rich dashboards track all financial aspects of your company’s supply chain(s). With outcome-based, intelligent streaming, INSTANT continuously monitors all transactional activity, ensuring each area of client engagement meets established goals for pricing, availability, and logistics.
- All facets of your supply chain are systematically monitored. Intelligent alerts automatically provide real-time information about successful activity as well as any potential risks/losses (with gap analysis for supply chain shortfalls).
- INSTANT ensures that potential product shortfalls are identified and prevented in advance of actual outages or losses.
Systematic alerts and real-time inventory analysis are now available through a simple, integrated source – INSTANT!
Real-Time Data
The INSTANT platform is uniquely capable of tracking, collecting, consolidating, and analyzing data – automatically and instantaneously – from a myriad of sources within and outside your company. This comprehensive access to real-time data sets INSTANT apart from other platforms, enabling you to optimize your entire supply chain and all corresponding resources.
Despite increased investment into data analytics and insights, the visibility of many corporations is still hamstrung by low levels of timeliness, accuracy, and detail in their data. As a result, global corporations are increasingly realizing the need for real-time data as an essential component for optimizing their supply chain operations and logistics.
Access to real-time data – and corresponding visibility on all elements of your supply chain(s) – have become essential ingredients for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. However, reliance on this type of data requires that the information is accurate, detailed, and timely. In addition, these data must be presented consistently and be easily utilized by your various systems, users, and stakeholders.
- Recent, well-documented disruptions to global supply networks have highlighted why corporations need accurate and timely data and visibility into all stages of the supply chain and operations.
With INSTANT, data accuracy – and immediacy – are foundational.
This means that all information in your inventory control system(s) can be relied on to be accurate, real-world, and real-time. This is crucially important because that same data will also be used in your forecasts and other financial models that drive supply-side strategies and actions.
” What if we already get ‘real-time’ information from our existing systems?”
Many companies already employ various techniques to track “real-time” information within their operational footprint. However, these systems typically lack the ability to comprehensively coordinate, track and synthesize disparate data points effectively – especially in real-time. Furthermore, the term “real-time” is used loosely – and inconsistently.
- Almost all existing “solutions” reflect lead times, processing times, lag times, and conversion inconsistencies … each of which causes delays that reduce the potential value of the data in the first place. The inevitable result is reliance on manual efforts (e.g., spreadsheets) to “connect the dots.”
In contrast, INSTANT solutions include – by design – the ability to analyze and synthesize complex data – instantly and automatically – from multiple sources.
When INSTANT refers to “real-time” data and insights, it’s referring to the real thing – i.e., data at its inception within your footprint.
- No delays – not by days, hours, or even minutes.
Real-Time Data
The INSTANT platform is uniquely capable of tracking, collecting, consolidating, and analyzing data – automatically and instantaneously – from a myriad of sources within and outside your company. This comprehensive access to real-time data sets INSTANT apart from other platforms, enabling you to optimize your entire supply chain and all corresponding resources.
Despite increased investment into data analytics and insights, the visibility of many corporations is still hamstrung by low levels of timeliness, accuracy, and detail in their data. As a result, global corporations are increasingly realizing the need for real-time data as an essential component for optimizing their supply chain operations and logistics.
Access to real-time data – and corresponding visibility on all elements of your supply chain(s) – have become essential ingredients for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. However, reliance on this type of data requires that the information is accurate, detailed, and timely. In addition, these data must be presented consistently and be easily utilized by your various systems, users, and stakeholders.
- Recent, well-documented disruptions to global supply networks have highlighted why corporations need accurate and timely data and visibility into all stages of the supply chain and operations.
With INSTANT, data accuracy – and immediacy – are foundational.
This means that all information in your inventory control system(s) can be relied on to be accurate, real-world, and real-time. This is crucially important because that same data will also be used in your forecasts and other financial models that drive supply-side strategies and actions.
” What if we already get ‘real-time’ information from our existing systems?”
Many companies already employ various techniques to track “real-time” information within their operational footprint. However, these systems typically lack the ability to comprehensively coordinate, track and synthesize disparate data points effectively – especially in real-time. Furthermore, the term “real-time” is used loosely – and inconsistently.
- Almost all existing “solutions” reflect lead times, processing times, lag times, and conversion inconsistencies … each of which causes delays that reduce the potential value of the data in the first place. The inevitable result is reliance on manual efforts (e.g., spreadsheets) to “connect the dots.”
In contrast, INSTANT solutions include – by design – the ability to analyze and synthesize complex data – instantly and automatically – from multiple sources.
When INSTANT refers to “real-time” data and insights, it’s referring to the real thing – i.e., data at its inception within your footprint.
- No delays – not by days, hours, or even minutes.
Integration and Consolidation
Supply chain management often depends on multiple individual systems. Some prominent examples include demand planning and optimization, inventory management and planning, operational planning, supplier management, commodities tracking, demand forecasting, sales and operations planning, and more.
- As a result, most organizations require costly manual translations for their business intelligence (BI) systems to understand the voluminous and complex data streams emanating from their other disparate systems.
However, with INSTANT, you can see – for the first time – how your supply chain, sourcing, production, and quality management decisions impact your company’s overall (global) financial performance.
