Global organizations need global capacity. With more than 3,000 dedicated supply chain professionals solving complex supply chain issues in more than 150 countries, our talent model revolves around teams that bridge the gap between traditional business and supply chain issues with cutting-edge data science and technology. Our Risk Advisory services and cross-industry experience also enable us to help you enhance your supplier risk management capacity.

We use cognitive technologies like AI to mine data, sense risks as they emerge, and identify the specific threats and opportunities that matter most to your business. Aligning with your enterprise technology strategies, we can help you fine-tune algorithms, deploy AI solutions, and manage cognitive tools over the course of the engagement.

We apply smart agents and supplier risk management tools (e.g., Illuminate, CentralSight, Cognitive Risk Sensing, Control Tower, Supplier 360, and TrueView) to transform your capabilities around cleansing and compiling data, offloading and integrating applications, and implementing collaborative platforms in a way that maximizes efficiency and minimizes risk.

We’ve assembled a robust roster of alliances, assets, eminence, market offerings, and leaders across the end-to-end supply chain. Our accolades span the full breadth of our alliance relationships.

We can expand your risk awareness and insight by drawing from robust internal data sets and intellectual property (e.g., risk taxonomy, KPI library, and prebuilt maturity models), as well as more than 1,200 third-party data sources. Relying on our industry and domain excellence, we can help reveal the holistic picture of your risk profile and deliver insights that drive strategic mitigation and end-to-end supplier visibility.

Our ready-to-configure assets can be deployed in weeks, not months. Given our cross-industry domain capabilities in supply chain and technology, we have the unique capacity to consider complex supplier risk challenges and use digital tools to drive sustainable solutions. And with our global footprint, we can jump-start your supplier risk management transformation across any geography or business complexity.

People and processes are just as important as the technology behind them. We bring a deep understanding of how to drive change management, end-user adoption, and process transformation. Plus, our alliances with technology solution leaders allow us to integrate multiple internal systems and connect to suppliers, fostering more collaboration and end-to-end visibility across your supply chain.

The challenge: A global consumer products company was facing many weather-related transportation disruptions and had limited visibility into manufacturing, distribution, and customer locations affected by significant weather events.

The approach: We created a GIS-based dashboard that graphically displays environmental hazards along select client locations and monitors real-time weather warnings and advisories along transportation routes. We then mapped the client’s routes, locations, and environmental hazard threshold to predict potential route hazards. The solution also alerts users when select weather triggers or thresholds are met or exceeded along a route.

The result: With data-driven insights, the business was able to predict potential route hazards 10 days before they emerged and alert clients to any potential disruptions. This foresight improved the timeliness and safety of product delivery, reduced losses and delays due to weather events, and enabled an estimated reduction in annual force majeure losses of $8.9 million.

The challenge: A global automotive OEM needed help gaining more supply chain visibility and a real-time view of potential risks. The organization had limited visibility into commodities or suppliers, leaving room for a larger risk profile. Historically, the company relied on reactive, decentralized measures to address supplier risk and used relatively unsophisticated analytics to identify supplier risk.

The approach: Combining our experience with the client’s priorities, we identified the company’s key risk dimensions, evaluated internal and external data sources, created an analytical model to prioritize commodity-supplier combinations based on risk, and developed visualization and drilldown capabilities for intuitive stakeholder consumption.

The result: We prioritized more than 6,000 commodity-supplier combinations into an actionable subset of high-risk pairs and created a risk mitigation playbook that enabled targeted action to address identified risk drivers. The collaboration ultimately helped the OEM shift from reactive to proactive management of supplier risk.

The challenge: Through advanced supply chain illumination technology and ongoing monitoring services provided by Deloitte's Supplier Risk Mitigation Program for Health Care, signals were picked up around a potential shortage of specific phlebotomy supplies and shared with program members more than three weeks before it became common knowledge.

The approach: With Deloitte's health care supply chain experience by their side, program members were able to identify alternative supply options, verify supplier legitimacy with vendor intelligence, and support stockpiling activities.

The result: The program helped its members ensure the availability of critical supplies without jeopardizing quality of patient care and them having to pay exceptional cost. One provider gained up to 120 days of safety stock and experienced $450,000 in cost avoidance, while the supply chain team looked good in the process in front of both senior executives and clinicians.