Global supply chains are more than ever under threat of major disruptions caused by devastating natural and man-made disasters as well as recurrent interruptions caused by variations in supply and demand. Current global events have caused unmitigated disruption causing either a complete facility shutdown or a greatly reduced supply of raw materials and resources. How can we manage in real-time? Is looking at a report with numbers good enough? Not for leaders who are awake and aware of new ways to track and visualize critical data.

The best option for many manufacturers is to maintain an awareness of the precise status of all their production-facility options, then to coordinate their overall network in response to the conditions as they evolve.

The problem is that this level of awareness may be difficult to achieve for companies that don’t have good visibility into their global network of facilities.

SupplyBrain is an innovative cloud solution for companies who wish to quickly and easily visualize their supply chains in action.  Users upload a formatted Comma Separated Value (CSV) file and begin immediately viewing that data set through the application. Users can add their own columns of data as they wish, and it will be displayed in the tooltip as the user hovers over a location or a transaction.

SupplyBrain shows locations and transactions between locations in node/edge form over a map or network view.  Users can switch easily to a table view to show the data behind a particular transaction. Note that the thickness of the transaction flow lines as well as the size of the location dots varies.  Users can choose to make these visual expressions scaled according to a chosen field in the data.

SupplyBrain is ideal for:

• Quickly analyzing the “pulse” of the supply chain
• Looking for anomalies in SC operations
• Comparing two supply chains against one another or the same supply chain at different time periods
• Providing a bespoke dashboard for the health of the supply chain without coding