A New Kind of Analytics Platform

There is a growing need for innovative supply chain analytics capabilities beyond spreadsheets, business intelligence and enterprise system reports. Companies also deploy supply chain applications such as network design, inventory optimization and routing but these are all packaged, typically deployed on someone's PC and do not address new challenges.

Center of excellence analytics experts are building models using machine learning, optimization, simulation and other techniques.  These are typically sitting on someone’s desk and not available for use by others. When they are deployed to users it is an expensive and time-consuming undertaking that requires custom development.

We have taken our extensive experience in building easy to use supply chain applications and leveraged it to create a  cloud platform that enables deployment of solvers and applications.  The platform provides many built in features such as user management, data validation, visualization, scale-able solver runs, collaboration and security.  In addition, we provide programmable data cleaning and mapping that can help transform a shared data store or model data from one format to another.

For the analytics solver developer, we provide open source tools that can wrap around a solver to define its Data Library(ticdat), test with Notebooks  and plug into our platform for practitioners to deploy. The solvers can be maintained through a developer environment. 

In order to test the platform and provide important supply chain capabilities ,  we have built a few applications that are already being used: Network Design , Network Risk, Multi-Echelon Inventory and Routing.