How many individual lines or tasks on the order are being filled?.

How efficiently is the labor staff filling orders?.

When that company receives a customer order to ship, there is a lot of information they want to know:

The idea is quite simply to provide more accurate data in as close to real-time as technically possible within a common platform that can be shared across the supply chain.įor example, one company may have a KPI around labor productivity. This SaaS-based analytics platform, used by industry leaders such as Del Monte Foods and Subaru of America, aggregates and harmonizes logistics data from any supply chain execution software to provide a near real-time view of logistics operations and deliver cross-functional insights. There had to be a better way to help companies address this problem. While there’s a desire to use BI/analytics systems, automate manual processes, and work with information in as close to real-time as possible, most companies continue to rely on manually generated spreadsheets to measure their logistics KPIs, slowing down speed to insights. The goal was to build a company that could help streamline warehouse and workforce management implementations, upgrades, and integrations, and put more focus on customer experience and success.Ĭompanies of all sizes have greatly improved distribution processes but still lack real-time visibility into their systems. Sixteen years ago our Founder, Gerry Brady, left his job at a distribution company to build Longbow Advantage.

Tell us a little bit about Longbow Advantage. We talked to Alex Wakefield, CEO, to find out why they chose to trust such a critical part of their business to MongoDB and how it’s panned out both technically and commercially. That means ingesting data in many formats from a wide range of systems, storing it for efficient reference, and presenting it as needed to users - at scale. Moving beyond the spreadsheet and generic enterprise BI tools, Longbow developed an application called Rebus™ which allows users to harness the power of smart data and get real-time visibility into their entire supply chain. Longbow Advantage, a supply chain partner, helps companies get the maximum ROI from their supply chain software products. The global market in supply chain analytics is estimated at some $2.7 billion - and yet, far too often supply chain leaders use spreadsheets to manage their operation, limiting the real-time visibility into their systems.

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