The Digital Thread
Taking a holistic look at the entire supply chain
For the optimal digital supply chain, companies need to take a holistic view of the entire ecosystem.

“The goal is to place the customer at the center of everything you do while delivering a delightful experience,” says Darcy MacClaren, Senior Vice President of Digital Supply Chain, North America, for SAP America. “That means designing the right products, planning, and manufacturing them, delivering them and maximizing operations, while optimizing costs. In a sustainable world, internally you want to make sure you source from ethical suppliers, making sure you contribute to a circular economy.”
“We focus on helping our customers achieve agile, resilient and responsive supply chains. That’s a tall order, but that’s what SAP Ariba and its parent organization SAP, through their Digital Supply Chain Group are dedicated to doing. SAP Ariba provides market-leading solutions for digitalizing and integrating all or part of the source-to-pay or order-to-cash process, delivered over the world’s largest business network. The SAP Digital Supply Chain Group focuses on an end-to-end Design to Operate approach with customers, delivering a digital supply chain “digital thread” through an entire organization.
Ariba helps customers navigate with XO data. “The X stands for the experienced economy and the O stands for operational,” explains MacClaren. “You need both. Your operation data is your financial inventory and transaction type of data, which of course SAP is known for. But the unique piece is the experience data, which allows you to collect the sentiment of your employees, customers, and vendors. You can bring this information into your product information and bring it into the supply chain, product design, planning, scheduling, and then also include it in employee surveys and through the whole hire-to-retire process.”
Tying all of this together is the concept of the digital thread, which is an evolution of the digital twin: a digital replica of your manufacturing process. A digital thread is a digital replica of your entire process and helps liberate data from silos. “The digital thread is actually taking it from a business process perspective. So instead of just marrying your manufacturing process, it takes a look at the whole process.”
SAP Digital Supply Chain and SAP Ariba are leaders in industry and procurement. They also offer a product called Integrated Business Planning (IPB) that helps companies manage what, when, and where they’re going to manufacture. IPB assists with planning direct material procurement and also 30,000 contract manufacturers. “We know what you’re going to make, what you’re going to need when you go to a contract manufacturer because you don’t have the resources or it’s more cost effective to contract it,” says MacClaren.
“On the exhibit floor, we’ll be highlighting things like IOT, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and Industry 4.0. We really want to shine the light on how Digital Supply Chain and Ariba can connect your entire ecosystem—logistics and service providers,” says MacClaren.
Supply chain and procurement software is going to have a predictive ability to recommend options for the future.
Darcy MacClaren, Sr. VP, SAP Americas
Attendees will also be able to learn how an investment in Ariba can be recouped in hard-dollar savings. MacClaren will be leading a seminar on building a winning supply chain. “We’ll talk about customer centricity and placing the customer in the middle of everything, intelligently, in production, and sustainably. Then we’ll talk about what we see is transforming the key areas of the chemical industry.”
Et’Chane Towers, Director, Digital Transformation Office, at SAP Ariba will lead a seminar called Intelligent Spend Management for the Chemicals Industries. “We’ll be discussing how businesses can drive automation in their business, and gain intelligent insights about their business operations from a procurement standpoint,” says Towers.
“Another benefit is improving how employees work, by eliminating manual and repetitive processes. If you can improve on the quality and efficiencies in the way they work, allowing for more strategic activities, they’ll feel passionate about their jobs.”
Anyone who is head of a supply chain, COO, CIO, or chief digital officer in manufacturing, procurement, or sourcing roles should attend the seminars.

A digital thread is a digital replica of your entire process and helps liberate data from silos.
MacClaren notes that in 2021 and beyond, companies will be completing the task of networking their entire supply chain. “If you’re not using these intelligent tools as part of your process, you’re not getting out of your silos and running a collaborative supply chain” she says. “We’re going to see more machine learning, predictive analytics, and solutions. We’ll be able to give buyers intellectual insights about their buying habits. Supply chain and procurement software is going to have a predictive ability to recommend options for the future.
The other thing we’re bringing into the experience is more intelligence into the supply chain. The unique thing is setting the vision, or where and how you get to an intelligent, self-healing supply chain.”
SAP Ariba provides market-leading solutions for digitalizing and integrating all or part of the source-to-pay or order-to-cash process
rent a golf cart isla mujeres
[…]Wonderful story, reckoned we could combine several unrelated information, nonetheless seriously really worth taking a look, whoa did 1 find out about Mid East has got much more problerms at the same time […]
rent a golf cart isla mujeres
[…]please take a look at the web sites we follow, including this 1, as it represents our picks from the web[…]
french bulldog puppies for sale in houston
[…]just beneath, are a lot of absolutely not related web sites to ours, however, they may be surely really worth going over[…]
drip bucket hat
[…]just beneath, are many absolutely not associated web pages to ours, nonetheless, they’re certainly worth going over[…]
alpha phi alpha bucket hat
[…]usually posts some really exciting stuff like this. If you池e new to this site[…]
buy instagram followers
thank you for publish post
BoostGrams
thank you for publish post
slot nexus
[…]here are some links to web-sites that we link to because we consider they are really worth visiting[…]
golf cart isla mujeres
[…]Sites of interest we have a link to[…]
where to buy cheap sildenafil
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
sildenafil 20 mg price comparison
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
buy sildenafil online no prescription
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
sildenafil drug
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
overnight pharmacy 4u cialis
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
female viagra pill online
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
pictures of cialis pills
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
tadalafil liquid fda approval date
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
cheap cost tadalafil online
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
cialis super active real online store
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
french bulldogs puppys
[…]usually posts some really intriguing stuff like this. If you池e new to this site[…]
fue
[…]Here are some of the web pages we advocate for our visitors[…]
lean six sigma
[…]although web sites we backlink to beneath are considerably not associated to ours, we feel they may be in fact worth a go through, so have a look[…]
cheap viagra online united states
The Digital Thread – eChemExpo
Piano restoration experts
[…]check beneath, are some absolutely unrelated web-sites to ours, even so, they may be most trustworthy sources that we use[…]
Piano moving specialists
[…]Here are several of the web sites we advocate for our visitors[…]
Grand piano storage
[…]here are some links to web sites that we link to for the reason that we believe they are really worth visiting[…]
Piano restoration and repair
[…]Every when in a although we decide on blogs that we read. Listed below would be the most current web sites that we opt for […]
Furniture assembly
[…]the time to read or stop by the material or web-sites we have linked to beneath the[…]
Residential moving
[…]just beneath, are numerous completely not associated websites to ours, having said that, they are surely really worth going over[…]
batmanapollo.ru
batmanapollo.ru
activate.bestbuy.accountonline.com account
[…]usually posts some pretty intriguing stuff like this. If you are new to this site[…]
افضل كلية تجارة بجامعة خاصة بمصر
[…]always a big fan of linking to bloggers that I like but do not get a whole lot of link adore from[…]
777
778
wlw.su
wlw.su
vxi.su
vxi.su
Classic Books 500
[…]check beneath, are some entirely unrelated web-sites to ours, on the other hand, they’re most trustworthy sources that we use[…]
2022 Gold Sponsors
2022 Silver Sponsors
2022 Supporting Organizations
Historical
We're not around right now. But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap.