Category: Supply Chain

Customers across all industries continue to leverage autonomous and disparate systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), order management systems (OMS), and enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to store supply chain and operational data. While these systems perform their basic function well, supply chain data remains locked in these disparate data source systems. The underlying data […]

We’re preparing for the future of supply chain with innovation on AWS Supply Chain. We innovate by working backwards from our customers, where we listen to you, understand your challenges, and gather your feedback. This approach ensures that our innovations are aligned with your evolving needs. AWS Supply Chain is a cloud-based application that helps […]

AWS was recognized as a notable vendor among retail planning platforms that help improve customer service, increase inventory turnover, and safeguard margins in the recent Forrester report, The Retail Planning Platforms Landscape, Q3 2023. This report provides an overview of retail planning platform vendors that help retailers manage demand and inventory planning. Forrester defines retail […]

Micro- and macroeconomic conditions, coupled with evolving customer demand patterns, exert persistent pressure on supply chain networks. Organizations must strive for greater efficiency and agility and proactively improve supply chain functions to improve performance and meet customer demand. Supply chain management systems include different functions that coordinate resources and business processes. Demand planning plays an […]

Managing a supply chain in the modern, dynamic marketplace presents numerous challenges because businesses must contend with fast-changing consumer demands, technological advancements, economic volatility, and increasing competition. These factors disrupt supply and demand balance and increase operational complexity. Supply planning, or the process of estimating the product quantities (or raw material or components) needed to […]

The aim of any inbound supply chain for materials is to make sure that spare parts, rotable spares, and consumables arrive to operations in time to execute planned maintenance work. Too often, though, low performance, the lack of trust between teams and limited visibility for materials lead to frequent replanning and excess reliance on expediting […]

Global economic, environmental, and social factors are still disrupting supply chains. This limits organizations’ ability to meet customer demand and manage operational costs. While supply chain issues are attributed to a variety of causes, the lack of supply chain visibility is at the top of the list. Research by Gartner found that improved supply chain […]