Research advisory report on achieving supply chain resilience

Persistent supply chain disruptions have exposed the vulnerabilities caused by siloed data and disjointed processes that impact supply chain visibility, agility, and resilience. The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s comprehensive research advisory report addresses these critical challenges and provides a roadmap for enhancing end-to-end supply chain synchronization. It emphasizes establishing a broad, interconnected supply chain vision that considers decision implications across the entire supply network, not just singular processes. The advisory advocates for cloud-based “control layer” architectures that can extract, integrate, and harmonize data from disparate source systems, including ERP, planning, and execution systems. This centralized data foundation enables true visibility, synchronized planning and execution, rapid scenario evaluation, and data-driven decision-making.

This report identifies the lack of accurate, harmonized data management across hybrid environments (on-premises, cloud, edge) as a core challenge and outlines how organizations can achieve meaningful visibility and execution synchronization to enhance supply chain resilience by overcoming this hurdle. It explores flexible, iterative approaches to digital transformation and delivering measurable value in each phase while progressing towards the end-state vision.

Additionally, the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group highlights the transformative potential of advanced analytics technologies like machine learning (ML) and generative AI. These innovations enhance data management, contextualization, security, and decision support capabilities. They enable timely insights, root cause analysis, and actionable recommendations for supply chain optimization and risk mitigation to amplify resilience and agility.

Organizations can develop a holistic data strategy, evaluate integration-enabling architectures, and harness transformative technologies to achieve true end-to-end supply chain resilience and synchronization using the insights and recommendations in this report. You can download the report by completing a short registration and learn more about the ways to future-proof your supply chain capabilities.