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Gartner for Supply Chain 6 Ways SupplyChain AnalyticsMitigate BusinessDisruptions Introduction In supply chain, minor disruptions are inescapable. These can range from late supplydelivery to a shutdown of a production line or a shortage in transportation capacity. Mostsupply chain organizations can quickly sense and respond to events with minimal impactto their customer service and operations. In today’s environment, however, organizations are increasingly facing major disruptionsthat significantly impact their supply chain operations. In a recent Gartner survey, 76% ofsupply chain executives indicated that compared to three years ago, their company isfacing more frequent disruptions initssupply chain. Meanwhile, another 72% reportedthat the impact of the disruptive events has increased. These events range from tariffdisputesandnatural disasters to major supply failures. With more available and reliable data, organizations are looking to leverage analyticsto sense the disruption, comprehend its magnitude, impact on the supply chain and toformulate a response. To succeed, they must rely on a strong analytics competency thatcombines a broad range of analytics strategies and approaches. This research outlines how supply chain executives can deploy a portfolio of analyticstechniques while they sense, mitigate and recover from current events and prepare forfuture disruptions (see Figure below). Sense Monitor the unfolding disruptive event Supply chain organizations can leverage publicly available data to track howdisruptive events unfold. This data can be provided by governmental bodies,academic institutions for free or it can be offered for a fee by service providers.Similarly, supply chain organizations can leverage real-time analytics usingmobility and location-specific data collected from satellites and distributedsensors to track the event. Visualize Contextualize the event’s impact on supply chain Visualization analytics help organizations gauge the impact of the disruptionson the supply chain. This is especially critical for companies with global, complexsupply chains with thousands of suppliers for millions of parts and components.Overlaying the span of the disruptive event onto locations, multiple tiers ofsuppliers and customers can highlight supply chain vulnerabilities; specifically,critical fail points’ risk exposure. Respond React to minimize negative impact Supply chain leaders use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) totriage the supply chain in the short term. Combining machine learning and AIallows them to track unfolding events and take immediate action to minimizeimpact on their supply chains. Unlike traditional statistical modeling that relieson past representative data, machine learning algorithms lend themselves toforecasting and leveraging noisy, near-real-time data that reflects a dynamicallyevolving event. Predict Consider future demand and supply scenarios Once immediate actions are taken to dampen the short-term impact of thedisruption, supply chain organizations turn their attention to understandingshort-, midterm and long-term scenarios to predict the impact of the disruptionon their business. Leveraging predictive analytics and simulation enables supplychain leaders to better prepare for future needs. Model Evaluate alternative supply chain policies Predicting changing business needs resulting from a major disruptive event,supply chain organizations can rely on approaches like optimization and scenariomodeling to make policy changes. Using optimization, companies can evaluatedifferent supply chain policies, balancing the trade-offs of managing a lean supplychain while building a level of resilience that would allow for quick recovery fromor avoidance of a disruption. Design Configure supply chain for resiliency and agility Using long-range forecasting, simulations and other advanced analyticstechniques, organizations can predict the long-term impact of disruptions ontheir business under different scenario conditions. They can then determinethe required action to position their supply chain to take advantage of newopportunities. Additionally, supply chain organizations can leverage long-rangeforecasting and optimization to increase their supply chain resiliency. About Gartner Gartner is the world’s leading research and advisory company and a member ofthe S&P 500. We equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice andtools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successfulorganizations of tomorrow. Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-drivenresearch steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that mattermost. We are a trusted advisor and an objective resource for more than 14,000enterprises in more than 100 countries — across all major functions, in everyindustry and enterprise size. Build a strong supply chain analytics strategy:How we help Supply chain excellen