Intelligent Supply Chains
In a highly competitive global marketplace, the timely supply of intelligence to business decision makers is proving to be a sustainable competitive advantage. To ensure optimal performance of asset intensive systems, operators require access to contextualised data in real-time to maintain maximum equipment effectiveness. As suppliers and consumers collaborate more intently in search of performance improvement, intelligence gathering and sharing becomes critical in effective supply chain management. This is of particular importance where enterprise boundaries become less distinct, such as with open access or tightly constrained supply chains (particularly around port and rail operations).
From our unique combination of skill-sets, Optika has the broad capability to design and deliver the required systems infrastructure that underpins an intelligent supply chain. An intelligent supply chain is a strategy to deliver supply chain responsiveness and place the business in the best position to respond in real-time to the many changing events that commonly occur. Organisations with intelligent supply chains:
- routinely execute well defined, complex business processes,
- manage information as a strategic asset,
- collaborate across enterprise boundaries to eliminate waste and capture value adding opportunties,
- rely upon computerised decision support systems to consistently make rigorous, fact-based operational decisions,
- invest in organisational development initiatives that build process-centric capabilities.
This concept applies to all operational management processes, including but not limited to planning, scheduling, material tracking, accounting and reconciliation, stockpile management, grade and quality management and asset management.