The Supply Chain Year in Stories: March 2024
Prysmian: Supporting a More Customer-Oriented Supply Chain
As the largest cable producer in the world, Prysmian is constantly seeking new ways to positively impact the quality of its customer service, as well as the sustainability of its supply chain execution.
The company’s ongoing digital transformation is focused on just that – and has taken another step forward with the successful implementation of Blue Yonder‘s SaaS-based Warehouse Management System (WMS) at its Canadian warehouse.
This important milestone means Prysmian is now even better placed to support a more sustainable, customer-oriented supply chain, and forms part of a wider project taking place across the continent.
“The digital transformation of our North America warehouse operations with Blue Yonder has begun, having successfully transitioned the first distribution centre (DC),” explains Brad Cunningham, North America Distribution & Logistics Manager at Prysmian.
“We consider the project a huge success, shipping ahead of the targeted go-live and exceeding the targeted shipping volume in the first month.
“Blue Yonder’s WMS solution has proven to provide the functionality that our DCs require to meet the customer’s demands, providing our operators with efficient operations and better visibility to workflow. As part of our strategy, we are moving from a traditional supply-driven distribution process to a demand-driven and sustainable process.”
Why Blue Yonder?
As part of its digital transformation efforts, Prysmian was looking for a scalable solution built for the connected world, in addition to a global supply chain solutions provider capable of supporting warehousing operations across its worldwide business.
Ultimately, Prysmian chose Blue Yonder to cover and improve warehousing operations, starting in North America. The solution is planned to become a standard for all Prysmian distribution centres across the globe.
With Blue Yonder, Prysmian can:
- Cover different needs, from cable cutting to kitting and harnessing, with comprehensive capabilities
- Lower the environmental impact of warehouse operations thanks to better management of resources, stocks, materials and distribution
- Enjoy integrated real-time inbound and outbound execution processes, optimising customer service
- Enable a digital environment and optimisation of every operation step to ensure accuracy, efficiency, compliance and desired customer service
- Scale across different kinds of operations and needs with a high degree of flexibility
- Support complex operations more easily with smart configuration
Coupa: Harnessing AI to Drive Supply Chain Efficiencies
As businesses around the world continue to be hampered by economic uncertainty, it’s important they have the necessary tools at their disposal to ensure their money goes as far as it possibly can.
Coupa has truly stepped up to the plate in this regard, becoming a trusted leader in the field of business spend management (BSM).
Its artificial intelligence-driven platform is connecting and optimising sourcing, purchasing, supply chains and financial management for no fewer than 3,000 global organisations.
Many of the largest companies on the planet—AstraZeneca, Nestlé, Aon, to name a few—trust Coupa to transform operating margins, increase efficiencies and growth, optimise cash and reduce risk.
It’s little wonder, then, that clients wait with baited breath to discover each groundbreaking new development Coupa has to offer, in the hope they will improve the buying experience and collaboration across the supply chain.
Advancing AI capabilities
For more than a decade, according to Coupa’s Chief Product Officer, Fang Chang, the firm has been leveraging the power of AI to help customers automate, increase efficiencies and work smarter in order to improve business outcomes.
“In a world where every business is being tasked to do more with less,” he says, “teams need intuitive, intelligent AI-driven solutions that have the power to transform their operations for the better.”
It’s a statement that rings true and explains why Coupa has poured so much resource into advancing its own AI capabilities, culminating in the launch of a series of exciting innovations.
These are set to help businesses:
- Increase payments automation
- Optimise workflow processes
- Create more profitable buying experiences
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