Leading professional services organization PwC has launched a supply chain opportunity and optimization analytics platform to help accelerate organizations’ digital supply chain journey.

PwC has combined its expertise in supply chain and analytics to create a platform of analytics applications called SCOOP - supply chain opportunity and optimization platform.

SCOOP, launched in pilot mode in May 2016, allows users to oversee the whole of their supply chain and uses advanced data analytics to answer four key questions:

• How can I quickly tell how my supply chain is performing?
• How can I manage my supply chain in real time?
• What does my optimal supply chain look like?
• How can I identify and implement benefits to my supply chain?

The platform is currently being used by organizations across a range of sectors including oil and gas, retail, car manufacturing, hi-tech manufacturing and telecommunications.   

Nigel Issa, PwC's global leader for SCOOP, commented:

"SCOOP is helping our clients identify and address a wide range of issues connected with their supply chain." 

"And the results are immediate - whether it is helping to move stock more quickly through the chain to sort out 'out of stock' problems, reducing costs or quickly identifying risks, SCOOP is having a significant impact on the effectiveness of our clients’ supply chains."

Organizations require a wide range of analytics capabilities within their supply chain  - the platform is built to:

• Support diagnostics of current performance using analytics and PwC’s supply chain benchmarking services
• Transform supply chains by defining and predicting the impact of future designs
• Manage in real time, utililising data from connected devices, machines and assets.

Nigel Issa continued:

"SCOOP’s use by clients across a wide range of sectors, means it can offer companies insights faster into supply chain patterns, potential improvements and lessons learned, than if companies started out on a bespoke solution.  By working with our alliance partners at Microsoft and advanced operational visualization platform provider Conduce, SCOOP brings the best thinking about digital supply chain enabled by leading technology available today."

Example of issues which have been addressed through the use of SCOOP include:

• Helping a global consumer goods business to design a future supply chain to effectively manage the integration of a number of acquisitions and to reduce costs across the supply chain
• Helping a major oil and gas company to optimize its use of equipment and centralize both the storage and maintenance of tools to one location
• Helping a major retailer optimize inventory and cost to serve by recommending to supply chain managers the best course of action to take
• Helping a car manufacturer identify supplier capacity constraints and set out plans to fix them
• Delivering segmentation of product demand profiles for a hi-tech manufacturers to identify optimal planning strategies.

Kevin Parent, CEO, Conduce commented:

"The platform doesn’t simply visualize and display data, it reveals operational insights in real time on how well supply chains are run. By pulling together data of all elements into one unified, engaging interface, Conduce helps decision makers at PwC achieve improved, measurable results."

Conduce unifies all enterprise data in a single, intuitive interface, enabling leaders and teams in a single room or across the globe to see, understand and act on the same information.

Operational data visualizations from any source including maps, schematics, images, video and more allow decision makers to select, filter, zoom in on, compare and navigate through time.