The Network Effect for Supply Chains

-The New Supply Chain Planning Paradigm: Planning Married to Execution

-How OEMs, Contract, and Suppliers Can Work Together to Optimize a Multitier Supply Chain 

-AI in Multiparty Supply Chain Control Towers

Read the Johnson Manufacturing case study.

7. Examine the information provided in the video, documents (brochure and white papers), and webinars mentioned in points 2-5 above to envision/conceive an intelligent supply chain control tower solution to the operational issues described in the Johnson Manufacturing case study.

8. Prepare project report and create  oral presentation. Suggested content of project report and oral presentation: a. Introduction

b. Description of the main operational issues that Johnson Manufacturing is facing

c. Description of how each of the following features/characteristics of an intelligent supply chain control tower can be instrumental to effectively eliminate the operational issues that Johnson Manufacturing is experiencing:

- An intelligent supply chain control tower provides real-time, end-to-end visibility

-An intelligent supply chain control tower provides a Single Version Of the Truth (SVOT)

- An intelligent supply chain control tower facilitates process orchestration

- An intelligent supply chain control tower provides dynamic resolution of problems, including prescriptive analytics, in real time using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

- An intelligent supply chain tower is a multiparty platform that plans and executes simultaneously all processes of the network assuming zero latency

d. Potential benefits that an intelligent supply chain control tower can provide to Johnson Manufacturing and its trading partners

e. Challenges that Johnson Manufacturing will have to overcome to successfully implement an intelligent supply chain control tower solution

f. Conclusion

g. Lessons learned

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