Consideration of All Constraints for Each Order

This is often overlooked but when we think about ensuring perfect orders in
our supply chain, the key lies in our ability to digitize and understand the real-
time constraints that we have in the supply chain to better execute on each
order.

This means having a system that can take in all of this constraint information
including SLAs, delivery dates and times, activity costs, delivery costs, internal
capacity for each function, external capacity of partners, inventory across the
supply chain network and lead times for all functions in order to best execute
on your increasingly high volume of orders coming in.

While your legacy systems will evaluate a few of these constraints in decisions,
I can’t emphasize enough the value of including all of these constraints into
your decision-making from an order perspective. This can lead to better usage
of the inventory across your network to prevent missed sales opportunities or
late delivery, quicker exceptions management with granular order flow
transparency and improved real-time outsourcing when capacity is reached
internally.