We haven't seen supply chain disruptions like this before. The supply chain crisis was caused by a number of issues that were caused by the Pandemic.
A new supply chain solution was announced by Amazon at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
Adam Selipsky spoke about the disruptions in the supply chain. The last few years have shown the importance of supply chain resilience from baby formula shortages to ships circling ports unable to unload. He said that addressing supply chain issues is important.
The company wants to put its strengths in that area so that it can work with the new solution from Amazon Web Services.
The preview of the new cloud application that improves supply chain visibility, delivered actionable insights to help customers mitigate supply chain risks and lower costs was announced today. You can react quickly to unexpected issues with a unified view of your supply chain data with the help of the built-in collaboration capabilities of the Amazon Web Services.
Selipsky says that the solution is designed to make it easy to manage this data. You can connect your supply chain data with just a few clicks The data lake is set up by the supply chain using models that have been trained to understand and transform incompatible data into a unified data model.
It allows you to display your supply chain data on a map, drill down on specific locations to find where inventory is and communicate with supply chain managers from the same tool.
The image is from the Amazon Web Services.
He said that with a unified supply chain and no upfront licensing fees, it's possible to mitigate risk and lower costs.
The company plans to add more functions in the future. This is not the end. He said that they would continue to invest and solve supply chain problems.
The supply chain is available for preview.