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The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform transforms the industry by integrating all enterprise-wide supply chain data and organizes it for executives in one “command center.”
Microsoft’s new enterprise solution can help organizations harness their inventory data, with an open approach and a multi-application platform that includes Microsoft AI, collaboration for supply chain, low-code development for IT teams, security features of Azure and SaaS.
Microsoft announced the Preview of their new product, Microsoft Supply Chain Center. This is a command center for supply chain visibility and transformation and will be part of the Microsoft Supply Chain platform. It’s designed to work with your data and existing applications natively, with built-in collaboration, insights, and order management.
“Businesses are dealing with petabytes of data spread across legacy systems and point solutions, resulting in a fragmented view of their supply chain,” said Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Applications and Platform. “The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform and Supply Chain Center enable organizations to make the most of their existing investments to gain insights and act quickly.”
Daniel Newman, founding partner and principal analyst at Futurum Research states, “Microsoft’s new initiatives in product design and their global services platform are a strategic step in the right direction.”
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform is an open, collaborative, and composable foundation for data and supply chain orchestration.
The Microsoft Cloud has a renewed emphasis on their newest announcement. By providing more tools and resources that are customized to your supply chain needs, it is easier for customers to realize the value of the Microsoft Cloud. The announcement helps with Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Teams in regards to building the capabilities you need for your supply chain. With Dataverse being introduced as a solution to enhance your supply chain workflow, customers can now access thousands of connectors using low-code platforms in Power Platform. The new tools are helping with better insights for businesses and a lowered carbon footprint for businesses through easy collaboration improvements.
Microsoft partners will play a critical role in enabling customer supply chain resiliency and agility. Partner solutions can now be made with the power of Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams and Power Platform combined with Dynamics 365 and more. We’ll continue to support our partners with a rich ecosystem including advisors, implementers such as Accenture, Avanade, EY, KPMG, PwC and TCS; and solution providers such as Blue Yonder, Cosmo Tech, Experlogix, Flintfox, InVia Robotics, K3, O9 Solutions, SAS; Sonata; To-Increase Software; and many more.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Center is an online platform that helps companies move faster and stay agile by offering them a flexible backbone for managing the business supply chain.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform provides a centralized command center experience so that supply chain practitioners can harmonize data from disparate information systems, such as data from Dynamics 365 and other ERP providers. It also enables data ingestion, orchestration and action-taking capabilities for greater visibility across the supply chain.
The Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enables businesses to connect supply, distribution and order fulfillment. The included module, Supply Chain Center, includes integration with external vendors such as mapping provider TomTom and freight carrier FedEx.
The supply and demand insights module leverages advanced Azure AI models to predict upstream supply constraints, shortages and potential stock-outs through analysis of historical data. Organizations can use the data from their supply chain network for future simulations in the Azure tool. The smart news insights provide relevant alerts in the Supply Chain Center on events that are happening outside of your business, so you can make decisions based on external information.
The order management module in Supply Chain Center can intelligently orchestrate fulfillment and automate it with a rules-based system, using real-time omnichannel inventory data, AI, and machine learning. It can also adapt to meet future order volumes and fulfillment needs by integrating with the best-of-breed of specialized technology partners. Existing Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management customers will automatically get access to the order management module at launch.
Your customers can mitigate unplanned supply constraints by collaborating with external suppliers in real time. You can manage complex decisions, troubleshoot transportation issues, and communicate on the potential upstream and downstream impacts based on changes.
Overhaul is putting the customers first. It’s our goal to make your supply chain experience frictionless so you can get your job done. All the information you need will be immediately available and consistent with no pasting from one service to another.
Microsoft is taking a significant step toward its commitment to reimagine the supply chain. Their announcement today will help increase efficiency, as well as helping drive agility for their customers.
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