How AI is Transforming the Digital Supply Chain

August 21, 2023

The role for any executive in transforming the digital supply chain planning world looks much different from the way it did 30 years ago, when leading companies like i2Technologies and Manugistics took hold of the software category, pioneering the widely adopted linear sequence of planning and execution. For years the model worked well under large-batch production and frozen schedules to serve a limited number of demand channels. But in 2023, it’s no longer a match for the evolution of digital commerce or the complexities of modern supply and demand networks.

Today, those forced to operate within the limitations of the traditional approach to supply chain management are no longer properly poised for success. As outdated processes, inflexible software, and risky spreadsheets create barriers, leaders are turning their attention to the emerging technology with the potential to reshape the industry: artificial intelligence.

AI is transforming the digital supply chain — empowering leaders to address challenges more effectively, and to drive business forward using with better data and better decisions. Leading that transformation, Firstshift gives businesses the ability to better predict, sense, and respond to market conditions with AI-powered solutions. By gaining unprecedented insight into consumer demands and supply availability, our customers can forecast with superior accuracy, accelerate their planning cycles, and more efficiently mitigate risk.

The future of supply chain software is here.

In today’s supply chain planning world, leaders need real-time data, enhanced visibility, and the automation capabilities of AI to ultimately drive better business outcomes and harness growth opportunities. Learn how you can be part of the transformation and revolutionize the supply chain operations for your business.

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Supply Chain Canvas

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Supply chain planning has always been a data problem. Planners spend their days assembling spreadsheets, navigating dashboards and stitching together reports — before they can even begin to make a decision.

We built Supply Chain Canvas to change that.

Canvas lets planners describe a question or scenario in plain English and receive demand forecasts, supply plans, S&OP scenarios and financial impact analysis in seconds. No dashboards to navigate. No models to build. Just a plan.

Organizations using Canvas can reduce planning effort by up to 80% while expanding each planner's capacity across more SKUs, locations and customers. The work shifts from assembling data to making decisions — which is what planners were hired to do.

Canvas deploys quickly, layers over existing systems and requires no data migration for Firstshift customers. Existing customers can go live in as little as two weeks.

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AI-powered Collaborative Demand Planning

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· Consensus Forecasting & Demand Planning Collaboration

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Benefits include:

· Enhanced Customer Satisfaction & Higher Reliability

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· Risk Mitigation

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· Improved Cash Flow

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AI-Powered Demand Forecasting for Consumer Products

AI-powered demand forecasting is invaluable to supply chain professionals in enterprises (belonging to any industry vertical) who need accurate and reliable demand forecasts to optimize their operations, even without deep expertise in statistics or machine learning. Currently Firstshift’s forecasting solution is used by enterprises in CPG, Food & Beverage, Agriculture, Industrial products, Apparel, Fashion & Footwear and consumer electronics verticals.

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AI-powered demand forecasting offers your company many benefits including:

• Improved Forecast Accuracy

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