I spent the last couple of days at our European User Group meeting just outside Stockholm. The roundtable discussion that attracted the biggest crowd was the session on the pro-active supply chain and how to move to an event-driven architecture.

In these discussions, the participants agreed that the dynamics of today’s supply chains puts the operation at a squeeze. It happens as products are being sourced globally – something that exposes risks associated with longer inbound leadtimes and more frequent changes in the supplier and carrier base. And on the other end it happens as market requirements pushes us to provide higher service levels and shorter lead times to win and serve our customers.

This inevitably creates a dependency that means we need to put more focus on detecting exceptions and disruptions to avoid that they ripple down and affect other time-critical activities. It needs to happen before the situation impacts the operation. Bottom line is you need to be able to identify things that should have happened, situations someone should have acted on, or situations that were alerted but not dealt with.

There was a lot of interest for the way this can be addressed with the Event Management Framework. Rest assured that we will elaborate more on this in coming posts.

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