CIOReview The Navigator for Enterprise Solutions SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIAL MARCH 27, 2017 CIOREVIEW.COM END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN VISIBILITY IN MY OPINION KEVIN GLYNN, VP AND CIO, DSC LOGISTICS CIO INSIGHTS NEIL HAMPSHIRE, CIO, MODUSLINK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, INC. Tim Garcia, President & CEO C ww
Essentially, we provide complete visibility of what was purchased, received, put in the inventory as well as put into service afterward Tim Garcia, President & CEO CIOReview March JULY 2014 2017 11 3
Cover Story END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN VISIBILITY By Jasmin Alic Handling invoices, managing inventory, and tracking assets are just a few of many critical workflows that any organization requires for its ongoing operations. Look at a company that owns and tracks anywhere between several hundred to several million active, global assets on any given day: they want to ensure total visibility into its assets and inventory with the capability to track each asset at any given location. This creates awareness to help the company invest optimally, avoiding critical shortages and wasteful stockpiling, which achieves the end goal of ensuring positive ROI. Industry veteran Tim Garcia has brought over three decades of enterprise software experience to create that helps companies seamlessly manage these situations by streamlining the supply chain and providing complete asset visibility on every front of the clients business operations. In order for a business to take advantage of the dynamic nature of the market, it needs a system that covers every aspect of its supply chain, says Tim Garcia, President and CEO,. Our company provides a catalogue of enterprise solutions that integrate with existing architecture to cover the entire span of supply chain and spend management operations procurement to retirement and every stage in between. By having unprecedented information and business intelligence in real time across their organization, CIOs are able to make informed decisions and stay on top of every challenge in their markets. Since 1999, has successfully deployed a multitude of Internet of Things (IoT), M2M mobile and web solutions to a global customer base, which includes some of the biggest names in commerce. Companies such as AT&T, Cameron, and TD Bank, as well as government entities like the Judicial Branch 2 CIOReview 10 JULY March 20142017
repaired, who used it, or its overall condition. On the other side, s Inventory Management software also checks inventory status based on those requirements, ensuring the product is in the right place for any purchase. The system also accounts for inventory on each vehicle and updates in real time, while providing further cost savings in what Garcia calls 360-degree visibility. From an orders standpoint, s Warehouse Management software works with Inventory Management to optimize the warehouse, helping accelerate picks and puts via a heat map showing where inventory can be best located. For financial management, s Procure-to-Pay product allows full life cycle management of a procured asset to include procurement, invoicing and payment. It ensures that purchase orders connect with the invoices to help payments expedite automatically for those assets. Furthermore, s software can track when each asset was put into service after that. It is a full endto-end enterprise solution that enables visibility down to every individual item, states Garcia. A perfect example of s integration is with one of their international clients that tracks 2.5 million assets located in 110 different countries. When they initially approached, they knew how many assets they had, but didn t know exactly where each was located. implemented a global multi-lingual system that can work in the native language of any one of those 110 countries, while also providing the client with complete visibility of where each asset is located. Moreover, if any of those assets break down, the client knows exactly where it is so they can track warranty, do maintenance and By having unprecedented information and business intelligence in real time across their organization, CIOs are able to make informed decisions and stay on top of every challenge in their marketplace repairs, or remove it from service and add a new one if the asset is at the end of life. Essentially, we provide complete visibility of what was purchased, received, put in the inventory as well as put into service afterward, explains the CEO. Between Today and Tomorrow With over 30 years of experience in the enterprise applications market, Garcia has witnessed the evolution of technology from the Mainframe Green Screen to applications on a mobile device laying the foundation for s revolutionary solutions available today. Since the beginning, the company s goal was to create a solution that is very user intuitive and easy to adapt. When we looked at our applications very early on, we wanted to make sure that we were helping people get their work done faster and cheaper, says the CEO. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, and we are only building up on that to ensure we always bring out the next best thing in our products. Heading into the future, will soon be launching newer versions of their application to further integrate it with current technological platforms, as well as reducing the functionality difference that exists between mobile and web application. It is also moving downstream from the Fortune 500 to 250 marketplace and further expanding its federal practice. Moreover, the company is looking for new potential areas its solution could be applied in. Garcia emphasizes the company s laser focus on further developing intuitive methods of completing transactions to continually simplify the process. We are growing as fast as we can, and we want to blow people away with our next generation of products, concludes Garcia. CIOReview 5 JULY 2014
of the U.S. Government, the U.S. Army, National Guard, and the U.S. Air Force, all benefit from utilization of the end-to-end solution. Staying Informed of the Landscape According to Garcia, the need for complete visibility into inventory levels at all locations is what unites both CEOs and managers. For management to make informed decisions, they must understand the market and the analytics behind each different sector they inhabit. gives them the overall capability to manage their assets at both company-wide and individual levels. In the decision-making process, it is crucially important to understand what inventory is available in what location, and why certain locations perform better than others. To maximize profitability, it s vital that inventory is instantly available, with proper placement as soon as it s received and made available at any given time and location globally. If you buy something, you want to have instantaneous information and make sure it is available, explains Garcia. allows CEOs and managers to do full life cycle management of an individual asset through its entire lifespan of purchase, receiving, assignment, and retirement. It is about managing what goes on throughout the entire process and knowing specifically at any given time, where an asset is located. This allows clients to always have the information to maintain the upper hand. Seamless Configuration and Possibilities Unlike traditional legacy solutions that can take years to fully implement and achieve a positive ROI, s quick configuration engine, combined with its ease of use, eliminates the need for long deployment cycles. As such, any corporation can be easily trained on how to use the software and scale it to hundreds or thousands of users at a much lower cost. It s also not unusual for enterprises in the supply chain space to think they must adapt workflows and processes to their software solutions, letting the software define how they run their business, which is wrong, claims Garcia. The software should adapt to the business, not the other way around. We want customers to see our application and be able to use it on day one. The software s built-in configuration engine allows companies to make UI/UX, business rule and workflow changes, and adapt it specifically to the role of an individual. In addition, s software can run on any environment, OS, database, web browser, or mobile technology platform. s mobile solution is the only one of its kind that allows users to manage their expenses, invoices, assets and inventory offline. Furthermore, by integrating with third-party data sources, companies have insight into the exact number of inventoried assets at an instant, along with complete visibility of each asset s final location. For us, configuration is making sure that the right inventory gets on the right vehicle, says Garcia. Due to the quick deployment and configuration timeline solutions allow, clients can see a positive ROI much faster. At the end of the day, what people want is information provided cost-effectively in real time so they can make decisions based on that. An Interactive Array of Solutions One of the unique qualities of s product line is the way it communicates with other tools. s Asset Management software tracks historic, as well as real-time information for each asset and works with any type of tracking technology. With that capability, clients can track location of anything down to the meter based off a few requirements, whether it be the item s cost, location, number of times it was What we do best: Spend Management Supply Chain Management Government Services Expense, Invoice, Purchasing, Time and Attendance, Procure-to-Pay Asset, Inventory, Field Services, Warehouse, Work Order Asset, Logistics, Transportation Management, Theater Operations CIOReview 4 JULY 2014
CIOReview The Navigator for Enterprise Solutions SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIAL March 27, 2017 CIOREVIEW.COM 20 Most Promising Supply Chain Tech Solution Providers - 2017 Successful enterprises are readily adopting advanced Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems to enhance their logistics operations and gain competitive advantage in the ever-changing business environment. By keeping an eye on product flow right from port of origin to the warehouse shelf, and shipments to final destinations in real time, SCM brings immense business scope and progress. This is mainly through managing business processes, procurement of raw materials, manufacturing and distribution of finished goods under one umbrella. The application of IoT enabled autonomous drones and engaging collaborative robots, have further pushed the SCM landscape towards new age advancement. However, enterprises face challenges in matching these modern supply chain solutions to integrate with existing policies. In addition, the sprawl of SCM being vast with broad set of offerings, selecting the right solution provider which caters to the specific needs of businesses is a task by itself. To help organizations select the best vendors that offer the most promising solutions, CIOReview presents the 20 Most Promising Supply Chain Tech Solution Providers. A distinguished panel of prominent CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts, along with CIOReview Magazine s editorial board has assessed hundreds of SCM solution providers and shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of providing cutting-edge technology solutions. The listing provides a look into how the solutions in this domain are put into use, so that you can gain a comprehensive understanding of how they will optimize your business processes. We present to you 20 Most Promising Supply Chain Tech Solution Providers - 2017. recognized by magazine as 2017 An annual listing of 20 companies that are at the forefront of providing supply chain tech solutions and impacting the marketplace Company: Key Person: Tim Garcia President & CEO Description: Offers Supply Chain Management (SCM) and spend management solutions which provide unprecedented real-time information and business intelligence to companies and government entities worldwide Website: apptricity.com CIOReview 6 JULY 2014