Microsoft Supply Chain Platform harmonizes the
data estate, introduces "command center" for enterprise supply
chain
REDMOND,
Wash., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On
Monday, Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft Supply Chain
Platform, which helps organizations maximize their supply chain
data estate investment with an open approach, bringing the best of
Microsoft AI, collaboration, low-code, security and SaaS
applications in a composable platform.
The company also announced the preview of Microsoft Supply Chain
Center, a ready-made command center for supply chain visibility and
transformation and part of the Microsoft Supply Chain
Platform. Supply Chain Center is designed to work natively
with an organization's supply chain data and applications, with
built-in collaboration, supply and demand insights, and order
management.
"Businesses are dealing with petabytes of data spread across
legacy systems, ERP, supply chain management and point solutions,
resulting in a fragmented view of the supply chain," said
Charles Lamanna, corporate vice
president, Microsoft Business Applications and Platform. "Supply
chain agility and resilience are directly tied to how well
organizations connect and orchestrate their data across all
relevant systems. 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."
"Supply chain solutions are more critical than ever. Our early
assessment of the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform and Supply Chain
Center is that the company has put its technology, applications and
resources together in a way that will serve its customer base
well in a wide swath of IT and operations environments, offering
flexibility for diverse IT environments and continuous agility for
transformation into the future," said Daniel Newman, founding partner and principal
analyst of Futurum Research.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform: An open, collaborative
and composable foundation for data and supply chain
orchestration
With today's announcement, we are making it easier for customers
to realize the value of the Microsoft Cloud for their supply chain.
The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform provides the building blocks
across Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams and Power Platform for
customers to develop or independently adopt capabilities for their
supply chain needs. With Dataverse, customers can create thousands
of connectors to gain visibility across supply chain, develop
custom workflows with low-code solutions in Power Platform, and
securely collaborate internally and externally through the power of
Teams. With tools and processes that drive positive impact, the
platform can enable organizations to gain deeper insights and
minimize the carbon impact of their organization and supply
chain.
The Microsoft partner ecosystem will continue to play a critical
role in enabling customer supply chain resiliency and agility. With
the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, partners can bring their
industry and domain expertise to create integrated solutions
leveraging Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Azure,
Microsoft Teams and Power Platform. We will continue to support our
customers with a rich partner ecosystem including advisors and
implementers like Accenture, Avanade, EY, KPMG, PwC and TCS. In
addition, to help customers find the best solution for their supply
chain needs, we'll continue working with solution providers such as
Blue Yonder, Cosmo Tech, Experlogix, Flintfox, inVia Robotics, K3,
O9 Solutions, SAS, Sonata, To-Increase Software and many more.
Accelerating business agility with the Microsoft Supply Chain
Center
At the core of the Supply Chain Platform is the Microsoft Supply
Chain Center, now available in preview, which provides a command
center experience for practitioners to harmonize data from across
existing infrastructure supply chain systems, such as data from
Dynamics 365, and other ERP providers, including SAP and Oracle,
along with standalone supply chain systems. Data Manager in
Supply Chain Center enables data ingestion and orchestration to
provide visibility across the supply chain and drive action back
into systems of execution. During preview, our launch partners C.H.
Robinson, FedEx, FourKites and Overhaul will offer native
experiences within Supply Chain Center.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management customers automatically
gain access to Supply Chain Center. Supply Chain Center also
includes prebuilt modules to address supply chain disruptions
across supply and order fulfillment:
- The supply and demand insights module leverages advanced
Azure AI models to predict upstream supply constraints and
shortages through supply intelligence. Organizations can perform
simulations using data from their supply chain network to predict
stock-outs, over-stocking or missed-order lines. Combined with
smart news insights, which provide relevant news alerts in
the Supply Chain Center on external events, supply chain
practitioners can make decisions and plan with real-world event
information and historical insights for product demands.
- The order management module in Supply Chain Center
enables organizations to intelligently orchestrate fulfillment and
automate it with a rules-based system using real-time omnichannel
inventory data, AI and machine learning. Organizations can adapt
quickly to meet future order volumes and fulfillment complexities
by extending their capabilities with prebuilt connectors to the
best-of-breed of specialized technology partners for order intake,
delivery and third-party logistics services. Existing Dynamics 365
Intelligent Order Management customers will automatically get
access to Supply Chain Center and the order management module at
launch.
- With secure, built-in Teams integration, customers can
mitigate supply constraints by collaborating with external
suppliers in real time, to secure new supply sources, troubleshoot
transportation issues, and communicate upstream and downstream
impacts based on changes.
- With partner modules built into the Supply Chain Center,
customers can unlock specific solutions, such as freight visibility
from Overhaul, directly in the experience. Since everything runs
off a Dataverse environment, the data is consistent no matter what
module is being using. This eliminates pasting information back and
forth and reconciling which reports have the most up-to-date
information.
With today's announcements, Microsoft is taking a significant
step toward its commitment to reimagine the supply chain, helping
drive efficiency and agility for our customers.
To learn more, visit the Official Microsoft Blog.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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