Analytics for Supply Chain Optimisation

Abstract Supply Chain analytics has gained greater significance this decade aiding in efficiency and responsiveness of a supply chain leading to a competitive advantage in almost every industry. Small scale industries and organisations are either unaware or reluctant to apply analytics and digitise their supply chain for multiple reasons. This paper is an effort to demonstrate the effect of supply chain analytics on a company and its current constraints. A detailed description of diverse analytics to aid in the surge of productivity at XYZ plant is presented. An underlying objective of this research was to impact all three aspects – strategy, design and execution of the supply chain to boost profits and optimise the system in consideration.