Digital Supply Networks

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Digital Supply Networks

Unlock the transformative benefits of digital supply networks (DSN)

Traditional, linear supply chains are transforming into digital supply networks (DSNs) that are connected, intelligent, scalable, customizable, and nimble. Let’s capitalize on this opportunity by creating competitive advantages for your organization to help you win.

In our rapidly changing world, supply chains can make or break companies as they drive the way products are designed, planned, manufactured, and delivered. Simultaneously, disruptive technologies such as new sensors and artificial intelligence create the foundation for analytics and a conversion between the physical and digital worlds. This enables traditional, linear supply chains to transform into digital supply networks (DSNs) that are connected, intelligent, scalable, customizable, and nimble. Let’s capitalize on this opportunity by creating competitive advantages for your organization to help you win.

Unlock the transformative benefits of digital supply networks

Unlike a traditional supply chain model, digital supply networks are dynamic, integrated, and characterized by a high-velocity, continuous flow of information and analytics.

Digital supply networks establish a “digital thread” through physical and digital channels, connecting information, goods, and services in powerful ways. The physical to digital thread captures signals and data from the physical world to create a digital record; the digital to digital thread exchanges and enriches information using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to drive meaningful insights; and the digital to physical thread delivers information in automated and more effective ways to generate actions and changes in the physical world.

Why Deloitte

We believe that your strategy, not technology should drive your digital supply chain transformation. This transformation is much bigger than technology and requires new skillsets, structures, insights and processes. Working together with partners in the ecosystem is key to differentiate your future supply chain.

Our agile and iterative approach enables you to achieve rapid results:

  1. Imagine: establish your DSN vision and prioritize opportunities
  2. Deliver: move from strategy to prototyping as quickly as possible
  3. Run: operate a scalable DSN that drives transformation cycles

We approach every DSN project with a value-focused mindset, leading with a hyper-talented, dynamic blend of technologists, strategists, and designers who use technology, data and science to drive business innovation.

  • Broad and deep Digital Supply Network Experience – Deloitte’s experience with 600+ projects extend across all supply chain competencies and across all industries, from Food and Beverage, Healthcare, Telecom to Energy, Resources and Industrials
  • Value-focused mindset – a given digital solution must solve a problem and generate measurable value before scaling across your organisation
  • Tools and accelerators – our repository of tools and accelerators allow us to deliver value in weeks, not months or years
  • Functional experts – our functional experts have experience across many industries designing & implementing digital transformations
  • Technical experts – our technical experts are on the cutting edge of disruptive technologies and platforms
  • Alliance Partners – Deloitte’s vast network of alliance partners can be utilized by you for your unique business needs
  • Organization & Change Management – our Change Management experts help you to build the right team to deploy digital transformation across your organisation

Digital Supply Network Lab

Our DSN Lab is a unique, long, hands-on experience to imagine and co-create your digital supply network future. The DSN Lab is hosted in the Garage, housed in the iconic former Citroën garage in Amsterdam (NL). The focus is on three key elements:

  1. Experience an interactive DSN Game to learn all about digital technologies across the supply chain domains. Understand the performance improvements via a cognitive supply chain control tower
  2. Explore digital technologies in-depth to assess the added value to your business
  3. Use this fresh perspective to co-create your business’ digital supply network strategy and set transformation priorities

Let’s talk

Deloitte can help you to accelerate your digital supply network transformation. Our agile and iterative approach enables you to achieve rapid results by helping you establish your DSN vision and prioritize opportunities, move from strategy to prototyping as quickly as possible, and operate a scalable DSN that drives transformation cycles.

What is your digital vision? Contact us to learn more.

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Sander Feenstra

Sander Feenstra

Partner

Sander is a partner in the Supply Chain Strategy team at Deloitte Consulting. He primarily works in the Consumer business industry. Sander has over 18 years of experience in Supply Chain Strategy and ... More

Mark-Jan Grootenboer

Mark-Jan Grootenboer

Director

Mark-Jan is a Director in the Supply Chain Strategy department of Deloitte Consulting in the Netherlands. He is a Supply Chain expert in the consumer business industry. In this role he participated in... More

Arjan de Witt

Arjan de Witt

Director

Arjan is a Director in the Supply Chain Strategy team at Deloitte Consulting. He supports the world’s largest Consumer brands in defining their supply chain strategy and transforming their supply chai... More