New Supply Chain Apps Offer Tailored Data Analysis

Managing inventory isn’t just about ensuring you have enough to sell. Suppliers must also manage quality and buyer relationships, and a new mobile application keeps these qualifications for inventory management in mind.

Cloud-based supply chain solutions firm Sage Clarity announced last week the release to a host of apps for suppliers and manufacturers following the success of its Food & Beverage supply chain solutions.

The One View for Supply Chain Metrics applications offers an array of targeted supply chain management solutions to offer specific metrics and analytics for suppliers. According to Sage Clarity, the platform’s offerings facilitate real-time inventory management through a slew of “mini-apps.”

“Now, silo’ed organizations within the same enterprise can leverage insight from tailored Metric Apps,” Sage Clarity CEO John Oskin said. “Executives and knowledge workers in organizations such as Supply Management, Operations, Logistics, Quality, Finance and other departments can quickly obtain a shallow-dive of information and collaborate with other workers or teams around the globe using any device.”

With specific targets in mind toward which supply chain data can be applied, Sage Clarity aims to offer real-time, global, specified inventory information. Employees can gain insight into not just inventory levels, but also profitability and cost management, customer deliveries, and other aspects of supply chain management. The apps are targeted to consumer-oriented industries, reports said, following the success of its supply chain management solutions targeted specifically to the food and beverage supply market.

The use of data to make a manufacturer’s supply chain more efficient is well known within the supply industry. But corporations, especially small businesses, are increasingly seeking out solutions like Sage Clarity apps to organize that Big Data and more easily analyze it for real world application.

A survey released last month found that suppliers believe today’s supply chain is more global than it was just two years ago, but that supply chain visibility is becoming a weak point among suppliers which do international business.