Global Supply Chain Analytics
By combining our automated data feed and analytics we can deliver unique insights that would have required an army of human analysts to decode and understand in the past.
Why RedGraphs Supply Chain Analytics
All analytical tools seek to translate data into usable information. Most often, the aim is to assist people in processing large volumes of data. In the case of supply chain network analysis, behavioral and cognitive limitations in the way humans process information make a systematic approach paramount.
Below is a summary of the major limitations:
Partially disclosed data
There are limitations in data availability because most of the supply chain information is not willfully published for competitive reasons. The SEC (under SFAS 131) only requires disclosure of customer details if the customer makes up more than 10% of the company’s revenue.
As a result, the collected data is a mixture of identified relationships with and without a known value, which makes estimating the unknown values a critical step in enabling the analysis of the supply chain network.
Difficulty processing feedback loops
People have difficulty forecasting nonlinear processes – even as simple as exponential growth. Since customer-supplier interactions are complex nonlinear systems, people usually omit important feedback loops in their analysis.
Time delays hamper improvement.
The long time required to monitor the interactions between customers and suppliers introduces a substantial delay in acquiring information, making a decision, and seeing its impact. In addition, even attempting to perform network analysis without a specialized tool would also create a significant delay because of the vast effort required to analyze by hand. Both of these delays hamper the learning process significantly and prevent people from improving over time.
The narrow scope of analysis
Difficulty forecasting the unknown
People have difficulty valuing the future appropriately or forecasting a system with probabilistic elements. Errors range from improperly accounting for their future preferences to mistaking random variation for a trend. For example, in customer-supplier interactions, significant noise comes from the time-shifted delays in signal propagation from previous events that appear probabilistic. At any one time, the incoming company revenue may be the sum of many previous events or orders, and any part of this revenue could have taken a circuitous path through several suppliers to reach the current company. It is impossible to manually break apart these paths and analyze them individually.
The RedGraphs Solution
Addressing behavioral and cognitive limitations
A single platform that assembles the reported data from public and private sources, estimates missing flows using our patented technology, and analyzes the fully characterized global supply chain network to unlock hidden insights, never seen before.
An ultimate result is a solution that vastly outperformed existing solutions in terms of speed, scalability, and accuracy of results and helps analysts overcome human limitations in deciphering complex supply chain networks.
In summary, we address the limitations above, as well as others, by:
- Delivering a fully characterized network of customers, suppliers, and the associated revenues flow between the two on a given date, as a knowledge graph.
- Incorporating feedback loops in the systematic analysis.
- Reducing the time delay in evaluating scenarios and seeing results.
- Processing all companies simultaneously without restricting data to a given sector
- Providing structure to the network to reduce the appearance of randomness.
With these new data and analytics, you can move far beyond a simple lagging of customer returns to generate new sources of alpha.
Make supply-chain analytics your competitive advantage
Powerful Analysis
Redgraphs’ Supply Chain Analytics was designed to do the work of 100s of analysts and apply network analysis techniques to the wealth of supply chain data it can acquire.
Priceless Insight
Using analysis tools invented by social networking and internet search applications, Redgraphs can quantify a company's position in the economy, the strength of connections they have with others, and analyze the economy over the long term.
Profitable Action
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Global Supply Chain Data
When you need to know the relationship between companies, customers, suppliers, and how events may affect the performance of connected companies, Redgraphs’ automated intelligence gathering is your best bet.