Semiconductor product manufacturing typically comprises a single business enterprise that is orchestrating manufacturing processes across a complex network of internal manufacturing sites, external or contract manufacturers, and third-party material suppliers to produce the final product. As the business enterprise scales its product portfolio and operations, this supply network gets more complex, and the need for collaboration, end-to-end visibility, and supply agility increases accordingly. This scalability requires various signals related to supply plans, commits, execution signals, POs, WIP, inventory, and more to be exchanged between the enterprise and its suppliers. However, there are many challenges and gaps in available tools across the industry to manage these flows of inconsistent and often unreliable data, and derive meaningful decisions and value from them.
What is needed is a multi-tier supplier operations visibility capability and platform that serves as a central portal for various functional stakeholders to manage the data over the extended supply network and apply advanced analytics to flag issues and recommend remediation actions. Integrating this supplier operations visibility platform with your enterprise and B2B architecture systems and tools will enable workflows that seamlessly act on the data exchange across the supplier network to quickly respond to demand and/or supply disruptions by proactively identifying and mitigating risks or gaps. This in turn will enhance supply network collaboration and agility and thereby improve supply chain performance across various KPIs such as on-time delivery and revenue maximization.
