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The real-time control tower: A critical capability for a connected and agile supply chain
Gisli Herjolfsson CEO Controlant
Adalheidur (Ada) Palmadottir VP Business Development Controlant
Luc Van Ostaeyen Senior Director PwC Management Consulting
Elmira Seitakhmetova Senior Manager PwC Management Consulting
Control towers are transforming the supply chain, using new technology such as IoT to enable decision- making based on real-time insights. The significant benefits of the control tower can be teased out to KPIs with operational and strategic returns, including sustainability and financial payback. And to help measure these KPIs, the pandemic has perhaps given us the most comprehensive case study to date. The accelerated pace of vaccine development will long be acknowledged as a remarkable moment in medical history, but vaccines don’t work at all if they don’t reach recipients. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 25-50% of vaccines were wasted globally each year due to a broken cold chain . Looking at COVID-19 vaccines monitored using the real-time control tower approach, waste fell to less than 0.1% in the space of 12 months. As supply chain leaders across the biopharma industry embrace this approach, the improvement is expected to amount to tens of billions of dollars saved each year, not to mention the impact on patients. With more pharmaceutical products reaching patients at the speed and quality required to be effective, the health impact is substantial; lives are improved and saved. Strengthening each link The supply chain is a complex ecosystem of partners; a succession of links that does not form a neat line from A to B to C, because each link, each interaction, is itself an intersection in other complex networks of raw material suppliers, manufacturers, LSPs, carriers and so forth. The multidirectional nature of the supply chain is why any damaged link creates risks – to quality, resilience, and sometimes even life. In designing a control tower, once a company identifies its current pain points, or pinpoints where its competitive advantage predominantly lies, this is where the greatest potential value lies.
THE REAL-TIME CONTROL TOWER: A CRITICAL CAPABILITY
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Controlant and PwC business leaders share insights into how the real-time control tower is transforming the pharma supply chain. With IoT to enable decision-making based on real- time insights, the control tower offers significant operational and strategic benefits. A supply chain data repository, no matter how comprehensive, is not valuable until it is presented in a practical framework of actionable insights. bit.ly/Con1122SCI
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Case Study: Cardinal Health
HEALTHCARE CASE STUDY
Overview & Challenge Cardinal Health is a Fortune 14 company that services the healthcare industry for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. They manufacture and distribute their own products and also distribute national brand products out of their Montgomery New York facility. When dealing with mission-critical products, accuracy and timing are vital. “People's lives depend on us getting the products delivered to our customers’ patients,” said James Sembrot, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain. It was important for Cardinal Health to utilize a reliable and dependable solution for their Montgomery distribution center that would also help them battle the unpredictable labor market. After evaluating options, the Cardinal Health team chose Locus to automate their Montgomery, NY distribution center. The Locus Solution allows them to pick, pack, and ship products on time and improve their overall processes. “We have seen improvements in all areas of our business, including safety, quality, cost, and service,” said Sembrot. “There has been a massive improvement in our operation across multiple metrics.” The autonomous mobile robots that Locus brought in have been a super addition to our processes. Pete Brennan Vice President of Transformation
Critical Factors for Automation at Cardinal Health
Scalability Efficiency
Health and Safety
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