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Digital supply chain transformation

Supply chain management has become a daunting task. Businesses must cater to a global customer base by offering seamless and flexible experiences while navigating volatile conditions in international markets. 
To be competitive, organizations must rewire their supply chain to anticipate challenges and react promptly to ever-changing environments.
Cognizant’s Supply Chain Management practice works with you to create high-performance supply chain solutions enabled by next-generation digital technologies. We help you modernize your supply chain while reducing operational costs and minimizing risks—giving you speed and flexibility without impacting ongoing operations.

Offerings

SCM to the max

With these SCM offerings, you can modernize your supply chain, lower operational costs and respond to new opportunities—all without adding risk to your operations.

Aim. Strategize. Manage.

The next generation of business planning will be integrated and predictive—no longer isolated and reactive. To unlock additional value from your supply chain, our team of planning consultants will help you create and refine strategies to improve your operations. Our expertise includes demand forecasting, production, inventory and distribution planning, as well as S&OP from 60+ engagements.

Benefits:

  • Improve forecasting accuracy
  • Reduce inventory cost-savings across sites and countries
  • Improve customer service
  • Increase collaboration and visibility among business units/processes

Analyze. Negotiate. Improve.

With sourcing becoming increasingly cognitive, the digitalization of procurement has become a reality sooner than expected. Our intelligent sourcing and procurement solutions involve sourcing at predictable costs, managing contracts, transforming experiences and providing options for touchless invoicing. Our S2P delivery specialists will work with you to deliver long-term value.

Benefits:

  • Optimize total realized cost savings by defining savings levers through intelligent supply analytics
  • Increase total spending by managing category strategy
  • Optimize sourcing and e-RFx cycle time through sourcing execution and scoring automation
  • Improve contract cycle time through terms and contract compliance
  • Improve CX and visibility with electronic purchase orders

Plan. Execute. Deliver.

Warehousing, transportation, manufacturing and delivery are complex processes that can dramatically affect customer service, brand image and bottom lines. Our delivery experts can help you enable omnichannel fulfillment capabilities emphasizing speed and customer experience with multiple dispense mechanisms. 

Benefits:

  • Improve capacity utilization and inventory accuracy via automation and visibility
  • Improve replenishment processes and fulfillment accuracy
  • Improve tariff governance and planning performance for daily shipments
  • Achieve overall reduction of manual efforts

Dream. Design. Innovate.

Cognizant’s smart manufacturing solutions drive continuous operational improvement, increased productivity and reduced costs. Our digital engineers will ensure self-monitoring and predictive maintenance enabled by machine learning as well as real-time awareness of the state of production equipment and raw materials to meet customer demands—giving you the ability to innovate and develop new products and services.

Benefits:

  • Increase in throughput and overall equipment effectiveness
  • Decrease in inventory costs and cycle times
  • Increase in labor efficiency
  • Increase consistency, compliance, and quality
  • Establish paperless systems and waste reduction
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Our services

Our business process consultants and strategy experts identify capabilities, measure business value, lay out roadmaps and prioritize key initiatives to drive digital transformation. With our deep experience in supply consulting, we provide our clients:

  • Digital strategy and process transformation
  • Roadmap for future supply chain 
  • Maturity assessment and solution selection
  • Transformation business case

Drive technology initiatives to deliver high-impact client outcomes and improved business metrics leveraging broad footprint and niche supply chain platforms.

  • Cloud migration of processes, data and business rules
  • Configuration, customization and global platform rollout
  • Technical & Business go-live support
  • Continuous improvement of business metrics

Managed services of supply chain platforms at the highest industry service standards with a focus on continuous improvement and cost optimization.

  • 24x7 Global coverage
  • SLA driven governance
  • Shared services model
  • Optimized offshore / nearshore delivery

Cognizant partners with clients to innovate and provide differentiated capabilities to stand out. We make it easy for you to understand and adopt cutting-edge technologies to increase supply chain agility and resiliency.

  • Control tower
  • IoT/Smart devices
  • Blockchain
  • AI/ML
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

We serve clients across the spectrum of industries

Retail

Retailers need to be ready to deliver fast and impeccable service as omni channel becomes the new norm.

Life sciences

A dispersed footprint and network of micro-supply chains will replace the old single site mass manufacturing model in the life sciences industry.

Our capabilities

Agility and predictability in navigating the future

Supply chains are now more unpredictable than ever. As global disruption increases, businesses are at a greater risk of exposure that could lead to loss of revenue, goodwill and service levels. Relying on market leaders and updating to the latest platforms helps organizations stay ahead of the competition and grow market share in challenging times. Cognizant and its trusted partners are transforming the way our clients do business. 

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Synchronizing everyday operations and decision making

When multiple processes work together in harmony, a business can create unique service delivery and supply chain models that help drive differentiation amid competition. Bringing this scenario to life requires a unified ecosystem that uses the power of AI to reduce costs, increase resiliency and free employee bandwidth from mundane tasks. Cognizant can help you embrace the change from legacy to cloud, so your business can instill new life into its supply chain. 

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Transforming supply chains for the future

Due to market disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional supply chains are facing sudden shortages, inability to forecast, increased managing costs and difficulty hiring and retaining talent.  Cognizant can help you overcome these challenges by leveraging smart manufacturing and strategic management to give you the intuitive edge needed to succeed in a global economy.

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Primary platform partners

We form partnerships and strategic alliances with world-class organizations to expand our service offerings and deliver comprehensive solutions to clients. Strategic alliances with the world’s leading companies enable us to provide complete solutions to your business and IT challenges.

Latest thinking

Supply chain software for life sciences: a cure for ‘analysis paralysis’

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Agile Chain Excellence Maturity Model

Our Agile Chain Excellence Maturity Model combines technical prowess, extensive research and relentless commitment to excellence.

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Generative AI in the transportation and logistics industry

Gen AI has the potential to revolutionize the logistics industry in the coming years.

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Multi-agent AI is set to revolutionize enterprise operations

AI agents that interact not only with humans but independently among themselves are already transforming business operations—and the technology’s potential is just beginning to be realized.

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Driving sustainable—and profitable—manufacturing with AI

Using AI, manufacturers can identify operational changes that result in quantifiable improvements to both sustainability and the top and bottom lines.

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Gen AI in transportation and logistics: five principles

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Supply chain sustainability: Life sciences’ next big thing

To achieve a more sustainable way of doing business at scale and speed, life sciences businesses will need to move more quickly in their supply chain sustainability endeavors, according to our recent research.

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Harnessing control towers for global supply chain excellence

The supply chain control tower is a valuable instrument for maintaining a stable and transparent global supply chain.

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How to de-risk your supply chain software decision

As supply chains return to normal, businesses can use supply chain assessment tools to ensure their software selection meets all their future needs.

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Three ways to prepare supply chains for the challenges ahead

Emerging technologies and a strong desire to change show the way forward for global supply chains battered by disruptions.

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5 ways to improve same-day delivery

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Digitizing the food industry to increase resilience

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Simplifying the supply chain enigma for retailers

In the face of global supply chain disruptions, a combination of emerging technologies and growing impetus for change offers a promising path forward for global supply chains.

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Adapting Supply Chains for the net zero era

In the critical race to combat climate change, sustainable supply chains are a key business imperative. Supply chains are responsible for more than 90% of these emissions.

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Take the first step

Serving customers by looking forward as well as back is a big promise, but the power of today’s new digital capabilities is vast and growing.

Let’s talk about how digital can work for your business.