Your Company Challenges will force you into transition.
Why is Process Clarity key and fundamental? How to migrate and introduce process clarity to become fit for future? It is evident that in the nearby future, your organisation will go through transition and transformation. Forced by your customers, your business of selling products and services and the new innovations making it possible to become competitative. Your companies’ Supply Chain Digital Twin Breakthrough Strategy:
- needs to be responsive to changes,
- must meet quality expectations, delivered fast and efficient. Marketing, Sales, Supply chain and Operations,
- apply to themes as Sustainability, Carbon footprints, compliance,
- wants to be attractive as an employer to stay or become a nice place to work,
- is exposed to risks of cyber, obsolescence, competition, new market entries,
- has to balance supply, demand, inventory, availability, on time in full,
- new product development, initiation, time-to-market,
- and many more,
To meet requirements all of these resulting from your processes and your people. And processes, supported by software, create data/history/trends, show performance, can be analysed, can support decision making. People, working together in processes, using enterprise solution systems (ESS), are key but comes at a costs; or an enabler bringing value?
ESS Software will be an increasing costs on your accounting sheets.
Why are software investments in enterprise solution systems (ESS) considered a cost? Your business, any business is exposed to an increasing amount of data and complex datasets, resulting from companies’ ESS. These ESS applications support processes related to CRM, ERP, MRP I/II, IBP, S&OP, S&OE, Logistics and Transportation. ESS Apps support data and analytics resulting from IoT in the field, Tracking & Tracing, Asset Management & Maintenance, and so on. And these ESS provided through Cloud / SaaS brings new concerns related to ownership of your data, cyber and data security.
ESS app licenses are considered and stay a costs if people hardly take a look at dashboards, keep relying on their spreadsheets, don’t feel responsible for correct data entry, accept multiple sources of ‘the truth’ to discuss unreliable data and questioning the data all the time. When ESS is only used to manage low level maturity business processes to provide the mainly accounting driven monthly reports it will stay a cost and outdated ESS requiring upgrades feel like pain. This complex world of data provides some sort of comfort in Decision Making mainly focused on Reporting (accounting driven for compliance) and some Dashboarding and comes and minimum acceptable costs.
Move away from ESS Cost to Enabler to bring Value.
How to move away from Cost towards Enabler to bring value? In the old days, things are relatively simple. A carpenter needs his tools to help him in his process of creating furniture. A cabdriver needs his tool in his process to transport people from A to B (evolved from horse and wagen into car on fossils to EV) and a map (evolved from a paper city-plan into a routing device and app).
Many examples of Transition and Transformation forced by Innovation are available, going through the phases of development, adaption and maturity. Innovation phase is not always recognized as a beginning of the next cycle. Do we need it? What does it bring to us? What’s in it for me? Am I still off any value? Transition and Transformation is scary and brings uncertainty.
Figure 1. Phases of Transition and Transformation
A company needs his tools for support and guidance to fulfil customers’ needs to provide products and services. Innovative tools (not all) bring new opportunities, profitability and sustainability. So what about innovative tools for managing your ESS?
The Digital Twin Supply Chain Breakthrough Strategy.
ESS (platforms, datasets, data warehouses) will become tools in the Maturity Phase. Mastering Digitalization, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, AI agents, mass data, complex data sets are the new innovative tools entering the development phase of the company.
These tools create the possibililty to forecast, predict, plan scenarios, simulate and support decision making. The trends forcing companies into the transition and transformation of changing capabilities/roles; making people feel uncomfortable, uncertain. Adaption is difficult. So where to start?
The Digital Twin Supply Chain Breakthrough Strategy starts with team effort, change management to go through the phases. Organization and projectteam should than start by developing a clear BPM foundation, invest in a standardized data infrastructure, and gradually integrate AI-driven optimization models. Starting pilot projects ensures scalability and organizational learning, paving the way for full implementation of digital twins.
About Act2Vision
In recent blogposts, Act2Vision shared Starting up a project and Roadmap for the implementation of your Supply Chain Digital Twin Breakthrough Strategy:
- Data Driven Supply Chains, Digital Twin Supply Chain; elements of a Modern Supply Chain
- Digital Twin Breakthrough Strategy
- What is the business case for Digital Twins?
- Project Management And Governance
Act2Vision delivers value in the transition towards data-driven supply chains, evolving to Digital Twin Supply Chains. The digital twin is not the goal or objective but represents a mark on the horizon. The Supply Digital Twin Breakthrough Strategy is a roadmap for your organization.
We provide Program management, Project management and Project Management Support. Combining cross-industries experiences in Supply Chain Optimization, Operations and Warehousing, Act2Vision bridges the gap between process reality and digital intelligence. We provide the link between physical process improvement and digital innovation, ensuring measurable, sustainable improvement. Our strength lies in operational excellence, transformation, and pragmatic leadership gained from many years of field experience.
Act2Vision Value Contribution in the Supply Chain Digital Twin Strategy
| Domain | Act2Vision
Value Contribution |
Example Deliverable |
| Business Process Management (BPM) | Mapping and redesigning operational processes for clarity and KPI alignment. | End-to-end process models. Training People. |
| Process Standardization, Optimization, Maturity | Implementing Lean, Six Sigma, CI, Kaizen, to remove inefficiencies before digitalizing. | Operational excellence roadmap. BPM-CI-projects. Training People. |
| Data-Driven Readiness | Structuring data collection at the operational layer to feed digital twins. | Process-based data architecture blueprint. Data Warehouse, Dashboard, Roles & Responsibilities |
| Digital Twin Implementation Support | Translating business needs into simulation models and decision logic. | Digital Twin Readiness Scan + roadmap, Vendor Partner selection, Implementation support |
| Change & Transformation Leadership | Managing cultural and organizational shifts for digital transformation. | Interim/Program/Project & transformation management. Coaching and Training People |
Act2Vision Digital Twin Enablement Roadmap
- Phase 1 – Process & Performance Clarity
- Transition, Transformation, Maturity scan, requirements, starting up a project
- Assess processes, define KPIs, and standardize workflows.
- Phase 2 – Operational Data Structuring
- Integrate real-time and historical data into a data lake foundation.
- Phase 3 – Digital Readiness & Simulation
- Collaborate with data scientists to simulate and optimize decisions.
- Phase 4 – Continuous Improvement & Training
- Embed continuous learning through Lean and TPM, train teams.
Why Clients Choose Act2Vision
- Impressive track record:
- various sectors such as food, chemicals, manufacturing and energy
- within operations, supply chain and process optimization, translating complex change processes into practical, supported solutions.
- in responsibilities for production, maintenance and supply chain teams, daily operations, S&OP, purchasing, logistics chains and inventory management.
- Project Management, bridges operations and digital strategy with a pragmatic approach.
- Integrates process, data and people, creates structure.
- Delivers measurable, lasting improvements.
- Independent from Cloud/Saas/ ESS Providers.
Act2Vision Services
Building process clarity today for the digital supply chain of tomorrow.
Clarity and structure. Act2Vision transforms complex supply chain operations into transparent, data-driven, and continuously improving systems. By combining Operational Excellence experience in multiple data driven processes, Act2Vision Project Management ensures your workflows are measurable, optimized, and ready for Digital Twin thinking and replication.
Our Services:
- Program-/Project management and Project Management Support
- BPM and Standardization Program (S&OP, P2P, .. end-to-end)
- Operational Data Architecture Blueprint
- Digital Twin Readiness Scan
- Optimization & Simulation Guidance
- Interim Digital Transformation Leadership
