Traditional supply chains are struggling to keep up with heightened customer expectations, increased regulations, and outside influences on the market — including how to pivot operations in response to global pandemics. Today, Australian businesses must look at their work processes and how these can be streamlined, improved and made more resilient through digital transformation.
To improve supply chain operations, organisations must improve asset performance and reliability. Yet they often deal with manual processes, inflexible systems, and spreadsheet-tracking for asset management, creating silos and limiting visibility into the performance of key assets such as equipment, machinery, vehicles, factories, etc. This lack of control and visibility impacts performance, production, service delivery, and ultimately customer satisfaction.
For stronger business outcomes, organisations need better asset lifecycle management across the enterprise – Improving asset performance and reliability is critical to achieving operational excellence. Organisations often rely on manual processes and spreadsheet tracking, limiting enterprise-wide visibility across high priority assets, including equipment, machinery, vehicles, refineries, plants, and factories. Logistics teams often handle a wide range of complex but repeatable tasks that require large amounts of data. Automation can help transform key aspects of logistics management, including automating workflows, more effectively leveraging asset data, and improved visibility of operations such as:
There must be a heightened focus on communication and collaboration amongst supply chain partners moving forward to make the supply chain more agile and resilient. Amplified engagement will boost disruption response and ultimately customer satisfaction. Transformation opportunities include:
The sourcing and procurement process is also growing more complex due to increased demand for accelerated timelines, heightened sustainability concerns, and the need to reduce risk with trusted suppliers. Looking forward, sourcing and procurement professionals will need to turn to automation capabilities to help them improve productivity and streamline critical processes. Sourcing and procurement are well-suited to the addition of automation capabilities. Key aspects of the procurement process can benefit from automation in areas such as:
A lack of proper demand planning puts organisations at risk of inventory miscalculations and production delays. With the addition of intelligent automation capabilities, managers can gain more control of key processes and areas of operation, including:
With the ongoing disruption caused by the pandemic, changing customer expectations, an evolving technology landscape, and the demand for more sustainable practices, supply chain managers need efficient and transparent processes more than ever before. One of the most powerful tools in digital transformation today is low-code; by connecting process mining, to workflow, to automation, low-code becomes central to an organisation’s improvement.
For more information on how automated processes can help improve your supply chain operations, please visit: https://appian.com/solutions/industry/transportation/overview.html
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