End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility and Control Tower
A consumer goods company with a 4-tier supply chain (raw materials → manufacturing → DC → retail) had no real-time visibility beyond their own warehouse walls. Supplier delays and in-transit disruptions were consistently caught too late to avoid stockouts.
Client
Confidential, Consumer Goods Client
Industry
Logistics & Supply ChainTeam Lead
Sophie Müller
Date
Q2 2024
Business Challenge
A consumer goods company with a 4-tier supply chain (raw materials → manufacturing → DC → retail) had no real-time visibility beyond their own warehouse walls. Supplier delays and in-transit disruptions were consistently caught too late to avoid stockouts.
Solution & Approach
We built a supply chain control tower integrating supplier portals, carrier tracking APIs, and internal ERP data into a Kafka-based event stream landed in Snowflake. A Tableau-based control tower surfaces real-time shipment status, delay risk scoring, and automated exception alerts.
Capabilities Delivered
- Multi-tier supplier portal and data ingestion
- Carrier tracking API integration for in-transit visibility
- Kafka event stream for real-time supply chain events
- Delay risk scoring model for proactive intervention
- Control tower dashboard with automated exception alerts
Business Outcomes
Supply chain disruption response time improved from 4 days (detection lag) to 6 hours. Stockouts attributable to supply chain visibility gaps were reduced by 71%. The procurement team avoided $1.8M in expedited freight costs in the first year.
4d→6h
Disruption detection response time
71%
Reduction in visibility-gap stockouts
$1.8M
Expedited freight costs avoided
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