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Create a visible and efficient supply chain to the point of the patient.
Common medical supplies
challenges by role
- “Product allocations driven by the pandemic have stressed relationships”
- “I’m selling a large portfolio –exceptions only please!”
- “Heavy regulation and political pressure on pricing impacting selling approach”
- “Our leading demand drivers & indicators not being monitored systematically - Creates surprises”
- “We need better collaboration and data with downstream customers to anticipate their needs”
- “Managing product expiration and cold chain logistics requirements is becoming more complex.”
- “Severe supply chain blocks caused by significant decreases in air cargo capacity, sea freight, and transport logistics.”
- “Allocation of constrained supply is often contentious and sub-optimal”
- “Historical shipment signals are not good predictors for our future demand”
- “Our batch planning systems are not providing real-time answers to demand and supply change what-ifs”
- Lack of visibility to anticipate and simulate scenarios and react fast to change
- “We cannot answer management what-if questions in real time”
- “Our AOP /finance process is disconnected from the rolling forecasts of our S&OP process”
- “We have a reduced pool of suppliers from which we can purchase products and thus reduced bargaining power.”
- “We struggle to hold the optimal amount of inventory with changing demand and obsolescence risk”
Aim big, start small, iterate rapidly.
Top 5 quick-win o9 capabilities that medical supplies clients are starting with
AI/ML Powered Forecasting and Demand Planning
AI Forecasting
AI/ML Powered Forecasting and Demand Planning
Using market knowledge, unleash the potential of AI/ML forecasting to more accurately predict demand. By better linking demand and supply, shape demand to maximize both short-term and long-term revenues and margins. ML techniques that leverage external demand signals such as epidemiological & demographic data can dramatically improve accuracy, grow sales and margin.
Supply Chain Analytics, Planning & Control Tower
Control Tower
Supply Chain Analytics, Planning & Control Tower
Respond to demand changes and supply disruptions across the multi-tier SC in real-time thanks to advanced replanning capabilities, Inventory Optimization, with what-if scenario evaluation. Model the end-to-end network including suppliers, manufacturing, distribution, and end customers to improve on-time delivery and asset efficiency while reducing operating costs.
Digital IBP
IBP
Digital IBP
Bring Financial, Commercial and Supply Chain plans and forecasts together, evaluate revenue gap closure proposals, supply chain feasibility and cost scenarios, and make P&L optimal decisions – Run all IBP meetings on the system for better alignment, and greater accountability. Maximize profitability in volatile market conditions.
Revenue Analytics, Planning & Gap Closure
Revenue Growth Management
Revenue Analytics, Planning & Gap Closure
Create and manage commercial plans across products, markets, channels and close gaps-to-plan by aligning NPI, pricing, and growth initiatives with inventory and supply capabilities.
Market & Supply Chain Data - Knowledge Foundation
Market Intelligence
Market & Supply Chain Data - Knowledge Foundation
Connect the dots across products, channels, customers, and markets. Leverage the vast amounts of data now available – e.g., epidemiological leading indicators, mobility data, patient health trends, ILF Data, etc. to better understand your markets and key demand drivers.
"Our goal is to achieve 80% of touchless operations. What we mean by that is taking away a lot of the manual operations, enabling automation [...] Through the work with o9, we've eliminated them, and now these manual operations are mostly a thing of the past."
Head of Technical Programs
"o9 is moving the team’s workload and energy away from executing mundane, tedious tasks like determining how many units of each SKU go to each store every single week. We're moving them upstream into preseason planning, into developing strategy, and then the system executes automatically."
Associate Vice President of Allocations and Merchandise
"o9 was able to significantly improve our forecast accuracy."
Senior Vice President of Corporate SCM and Logistics
"Now when we hear things like, "This has been the most important improvement or biggest improvement to my mental health" to "I have never, ever have to tell a customer I'm out of something." Those are the moments when you know we have got it right."
Vice President of Engineering and Quality Assurance
"We had a significant reduction in expedited costs. Our target was 4 to 6 million dollars. And we achieved close to 9 million dollars…"
Vice President of Supply Chain COE
