Use Case: Multi-Tier FDA Controlled Materials Disaster Response
Catastrophic Supplier Failure Event
Client’s sole sourced, FDA regulated, vendor for a major product suffered a catastrophic plant wide explosion and ceased production.
- Client used Vecco tools to analyze 17 worldwide sites with possible inventory containing the finished goods or usable forms of the critical Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
- Answers to Management regarding global supply on hand and demand for same in minutes, not days or weeks
- Production team rapidly identified and certified 3 alternate vendors
- Vecco tools utilized to rapidly reconfigure processes to spread load across 3 vendors, including reconfiguring logistics and materials planning
- Production team coordinated restart, as plants using Vecco VCRP™
- Customers were informed in real time throughout recovery process
- No Customers were lost
Enabled fast recovery from Catastrophic Vendor plant failure
Supply Chain 4.0 enabling the ‘Digital Enterprise’ and Industry 4.0
The real value of the "Digital Enterprise" movement & Industry 4.0 can only be realized unless it is encompassed and orchestrated by parallel automation / Digitization of the 'Supply Chain' delivery mechanism. "Global supply chain flows must become increasingly...