If You Can’t Access the Truth, How Can You Determine the Truth?

Let’s just come right out and say it – without the ability to capture, aggregate, and understand your supply chain data, you have gray area within your organization.

Proprietary warehouse, transportation, and labor management systems bolted onto legacy ERP systems, all “enriched” with off-the-shelf and bespoke software solutions, are a recipe for disaster. It’s a veritable petri dish for blind spots across your operation that no amount of manual workarounds can fix. 

The data locked in black boxes across your operating network causes you, and your network, to operate ineffectually.

The consequences can be serious. If you can’t see what’s truly going on at any moment in time across your supply chain, you’ll make yourself vulnerable to lost opportunities, lost income, lost inventory, lost shipments, and eventually, lost customers. 

Yet, the money was spent, and the technology is now in place. So, what next? How can you make it all work together and build a better supply chain business, fast? The answer:

Get Your Story Straight

Your “story” is in your data. Every system in your network collects it and stores it somewhere. But the systems that need it can’t always access it and having a powerful, accessible, and cloud-based data platform can help.  To be successful, you need a platform with massive computing power to process daily requests that occur across your supply chain.  Additionally, your platform still needs to provide your operations with an open portal into the common data lake, establishing access to a source of truth from any system or device in near real-time. 

Sound too good to be true? Perhaps. If you were to go about building it yourself, you would have to spend excess time, money, and talent on the project and, by the time it was ready to launch, it may already be obsolete. But fortunately, you don’t have to build it; it already exists in Open Sky Group’s Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is an agnostic, lightweight, data aggregation platform incorporating AI and machine learning (ML) for the purpose of enhancing supply chain execution. 

Kaleidoscope serves as a massive, elastic data lake, providing connectors to core operating systems and databases you use every day, including WMS, TMS, LMS, ERP, and other enterprise software and systems. 

The licensed platform seamlessly plugs into all your disparate systems using open-source technology, so you can see what’s going on and make informed decisions – without wondering if you have the latest information, or if something else is hidden in the dark recesses of your technology chain. 

Oh, the Things You Can Do with the Right Information

Today’s world demands that you position yourself for clean, efficient, and effective data usage no matter what your technology stack looks like. Data will increasingly feed modern, emerging AI and ML applications and populate decision dashboards in all areas of industry. 

In the supply chain, accurate data is what alerts you to delays due to weather emergencies and other calamities upstream in enough time to adjust your plans. It tells you that the kitting routines you’re performing systemwide aren’t being billed uniformly across your DCs, or that a certain carrier is the optimal choice for short hauls, but a drain when they enter densely populated urban areas. 

Data allows you to craft accurate forecasts for labor and inventory, spot anomalies in ordinary patterns, and compare a performance across your network for meaningful adjustments that impact customer satisfaction and your bottom line.

With Kaleidoscope, you can customize dashboards to visualize data in any way that makes sense to you. You don’t have to be a skilled computer programmer to build charts or graphs and drill down into the details. And, because the information in your Kaleidoscope data warehouse is partitioned according to assigned permissions based on user needs, you can rest assured that no sensitive customer information is being shared, while affording associates and business partners the data they require to collaborate effectively and efficiently from any browser-enabled device.

Visualize Success through a Clear Lens with Kaleidoscope

Transparency across your supply chain is achievable with Kaleidoscope from Open Sky Group. The platform’s array of AI- and ML-enabled application modules, called “lenses,” include: 

• • Enhanced Client Billing – Enabling direct data extraction from integrated systems on Kaleidoscope for accurate, automated, up-to-date bill processing

• • Supply Chain Insight – Delivering capabilities and workflows around data that help you predict, anticipate, and adjust plans according to evolving needs

• • Supply Chain Portal – Allowing 3PL operators to provide timely information to clients through a secure, online, self-service portal based on client ID and client grouping

• • Supply Chain Chat – Providing an enhanced natural language chat “prompt experience” for enterprise users and customers

Take the blinders off your organization and gain the transparency you need to compete at a new level of effectiveness. Contact Open Sky Group and look into Kaleidoscope today.