Supply Chain Management

Organizations that have traditionally invested in optimizing processes and their implementations in legacy execution platform are facing the double edged sword of losing stable execution platforms and investing in integration to make the most of network technology investments, adding to this is disruption on the floor level execution. This disruption is due to the change management introduced as a result of new application and screen flows. This disruption is very often the most important challenge to move to a network based ecosystem since change management needs to be comprehensive and cover all handling locations. A rapid adoption cycle is still nascent and hence today’s multi-year WMS consolidation programs across multiple warehouse and locations add to the delay and cost.

Traditionally supply chain processes are event centric. Alternative approaches to network technology adoption can be evaluated critically using an event based model where contextual intelligence from local execution with existing underlying systems are extracted and co-related  to give an in-flight view of execution across the network.

Infosys’ Warehouse Advanced Visibility Enterprise Solution (WAVES) is a solution concept where is architected on the premise that keeps workforce disruption low, IT integration overheads manage-able by banking on maturing of technology interoperability and controlling carnage of data movement, taking an event context publish design from a “wrap around” fashion. Add to it the top down architectural setup to make the whole concept to be “shrink wrapped” on all network participants -- actors and systems purely focusing on visibility across the network that spearheads exception impact to be seen at right level and act accordingly.

Long story short, a short pick event in one drop ship vendor's warehouse gets visible as a order fill rate risk much before warehouse updates have come by the end of day leaving enough time to trigger alternate fulfillment and track the same to closure.