Retail & Grocery Supply Chain Solutions

Do you need to…

• Improve your on-shelf availability?
• Reduce your cost of goods sold?
• Optimize your inventories?
• Improve the visibility and traceability across your supply chain?
• Improve your omnichannel fulfillment performance?

If so, you need a Digital Supply Network! One Network provides a multi-party cloud platform that allows you to:

• Seamlessly propagate the demand signal back from your stores through your multi-tier supply network
• Balance demand and supply at every node in the network
• Respond to demand signals in real time to fulfill customer needs at the lowest cost
• Achieve end-to-end visibility and transparency

One Network enables all four levels of supply chain control tower deployment, from visibility, collaboration, autonomous decision-making to advanced cognitive capabilities.

A One Network Control Tower offers:

• End-to-end-visibility – across all your supply chain trading partners
• Collaborative information sharing – to align all parties around supply and demand
• Early warning alerts and exception management – resolve issues before they disrupt your supply chain
• Predictive and prescriptive analytics – decision support
• Autonomous decision-making and control
• Cognitive capabilities – a self-correcting supply chain with using machine learning

The first level of digitization is to fully understand what is going on in your supply network, manage by exception, and resolve all the exceptions in real time.

First things first, let’s model your supply network with all the nodes and lanes connecting all the parties (you, your customers, distributors, suppliers, carriers, etc.). Then let’s identify the standards that you want to measure for each node and lane (e.g. inventory levels, order capture to order shipment cycle time – you name it). Then let’s build the alerts that will get flagged every time one of these standards is not complied with. Simple enough.

And, by the way, you can model your network differently at any level in your product hierarchy in case you have different routes to market from suppliers to stores. Some of your items may go through your retail distribution centers, some may be delivered direct to store by your DSD partners. Not a problem. We can handle it all.

Then we go to work and work with you to connect all your B2B partners to the network. We are experts in any integration protocol (kind of hard to operate a network without it), and we also offer a portal interface to allow the not-so-technical parties to collaborate on the network.

The result? Your team will be able to manage the entire supply network by exception, drill down into each exception to fully understand the issue, and resolve it there and then by using a built-in chat interface. Who said it was difficult to manage your entire supply network in real time?

And we deliver the analytics to you as well, so you have all the insights to understand what is working and not working for every node and every lane on your network. Now you can work with your distributors, suppliers and carriers to improve the overall performance of the network. And the best of it? No endless debate with your supply chain partners. Why? Because everyone on the network uses the same single version of the truth! No more confusion about your data vs. their data. A single network is a beautiful thing.

The second level of digitization allows you to optimize your multi-party processes across all the tiers included in your network definition.

The purpose of Optimized Execution is to allow you to:

1. Seamlessly propagate the demand signal back through the supply network;
2. Balance demand and supply at every node in the supply network in near real time, and;
3. Respond to demand signal in near real time to fulfill consumer demand at the lowest cost

This Real-Time Sense and Respond approach is not new, yet retailers have not been able to implement it. Why? Because they rely solely on enterprise-centric capabilities that need to be connected across enterprises via EDI, spreadsheets or emails! This disconnected and siloed way of doing things is structurally flawed. It will deliver delays, frictions and inefficiencies that make the goal of Real-Time Sense and Respond impossible to achieve.

Digitizing your supply network by deploying the Optimized Execution capabilities of the One Network will allow you to deploy a true Real-Time Sense and Respond model. Finally.

And you can start wherever you want based on your business needs. You need to improve your demand sensing accuracy? Check. You need to reduce your inventory levels? Check. You need to improve your DC operations? Check. You are in control.

The third level of digitization is to leverage your network data to optimize your financial decisions. You can access a financial view of your demand and supply plans, in the form of a Directional P&L. At a glance, that P&L view will allow you to monitor the financial impact of demand and supply execution, and take corrective actions to ensure financial success. You can use this solution to optimize your network in multiple ways:

• Operationally. You face a disruption to your business and you need to evaluate the impact on your financials. You can then take the appropriate action based on the nature of the disruption.
• Tactically. You can use what-if scenario planning to look for the best option to achieve your financial targets.
• Strategically. You can take the long term view and integrate the data into your strategic planning decisions related to, for example, capex planning and strategic sourcing.

You cannot build a house (or a network for that matter) without the right foundation, so let’s start there. Orchestrating multi-party processes on a single network platform requires some serious construction work – but the good news is that we did it all for you.

The ONE Platform is an Application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) that is designed for multi-party network ecosystems from the ground up. No other network platform in the market will give you all the features that we have built over the years, such as:

• Permissibility Model. One Network has built a patented multi-party permissibility model that controls what everyone can see and do on the network with the highest levels of security.
• Community Data Model. You cannot operate a network without a single definition of the items, parties and locations. We take care of that for you, no matter which standards you and your partners use to share your data on the network.
• Modularity. All our applications can be used in a modular way to enable configurable multi-party processes on the network. You only deploy what you need.
• Interoperability. A digital supply network needs to connect to enterprise systems of record to enable integrated processes. This is why we built a deep expertise in integration technologies, and publish a public API will all our modules.
• Scalability. We deployed a horizontally scalable middle tier with grid computing architecture in order to be able to operate massive amounts of computation in real time. When we say real time, we mean it!
• Reliability. Our cloud is built on a highly redundant and reliable architecture, and we guarantee an industry best on time availability.
• Flexibility. Last but not least, the platform supports highly flexible and configurable business processes. Even better, we invite all our partners and customers to leverage our rich SDK to build additional capabilities on the ONE platform. The development tools on the platform enable the rapid development of innovative, supportable, Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications for business networks. So don’t hesitate to join our Developer Network (called DevNet) to learn and build on the ONE Platform, exchange ideas, leverage shareware, and market your apps!

Join Developer Network (DevNet), our developer community, to learn and build on ONE Platform, exchange ideas, leverage shareware, and market your apps. Amplify the value of your services and applications by deploying on a large fast growing business network.

One Network’s Platform can be deployed as a System of Engagement on top of Enterprise Systems of Record. If and when it makes sense, ONE Platform can take on the functionality of legacy systems.

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