Cognitive Supply Chain

Control Tower
End-to-end real-time visibility combined
with orchestration and collaboration
across your entire supply chain to make
predictive and prescriptive decisions

Industry Challenges

• Enterprises have invested heavily in technology solutions to digitize their supply

chains. However, the intended beneficiaries of these solutions are still forced to rely
on spreadsheets and manual processes to do their day-to-day tasks.

• Most supply chain transformations end up becoming overwhelming IT projects like

their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) predecessors. Supply chain professionals
need a modular, agile system that can work with existing technologies and data
sets to provide immediate value to various stakeholders including central, material,
and plant planners, buyers, suppliers, and even customers. still forced to rely on
spreadsheets and manual processes to do their day-to-day tasks.

• Until recently, supply chain control towers only gave visibility across
Tier-1 suppliers. As natural disasters and political realities continue
to stress supply chains, there is a need for multi-tier supply chain
solutions that provide real-time visibility and offer collaboration,
decision making, and orchestration across various n-tier suppliers.

Tada’s
Technology 60% Expedites
80%
POA
40%  20% 
Productivity Inventory
Delivered Reduction Reduction Improvement Reduction

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Technology Core Functional

Components Components Components

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The Cognitive Control Tower uses technological and functional components as the core
building blocks for an efficient and integrated supply chain control tower.

Technology Components

• Digital Twin of the Organization (DTO) – DTO as • Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning – Using
defined by Gartner is “a dynamic software model of an built-in AI modeling, Tada can predict changes and
organization that relies on operational and other data prescribe recommendations for supply chain managers
to understand how this organization operationalizes its to differentiate their organization from competitors.
business model, connects with its current state, responds Many experts believe the future of supply chain will be
to changes, deploys resources and delivers customer autonomous. Similar to self-driving cars, most supply
value.” At Tada, we take the Digital Twin software model planning, and demand decisions will be made without
a step further by using our patented Digital Duplicate human intervention. But before businesses can make that
technology to build the digital DNA of a business. This leap, they need to find a way to combine internal records,
Digital Duplicate allows for a common language that such as inventory, WIP, inbound shipments, and POS
connects and empowers an organization’s people, data, with external data points, such as natural disasters,
processes, partners, and technology. weather forecasts, social and market trends. Our Cognitive
Supply Chains analyze all types of data within the supply
• Security and Blockchain – With Tada’s smart contracts chain ecosystem to provide the guidance needed to make
across our ecosystem, we ensure secure data transfers impactful business decisions.
from suppliers to OEMs and vice versa. Our personalized
portals restrict data sets, so users only see the data • Search and Explore – Tada offers a built-in search
they have access to. Setting secured filters for all users feature that allows supply chain professionals to
guarantees the proper restrictions on data access and quickly find data on plants, parts, and suppliers. With
establishes a single point of truth for internal users and Tada’s Business Explorer, non-technical business
external partners. Finally, our partners Samsung and users can now create their own analytics dashboard
Copperwire offer an additional trusted layer of security to without any programming or any help from IT teams.
our Cognitive Control Tower.

• Scenario and Impact Analysis – Tada provides many out-

of-box capabilities to run scenario analysis. Supply chain
professionals need to run various what-if-scenarios before
making big decisions because these choices could have
huge impacts on a company’s revenue and profitability.

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Functional Components

• Real-time Visibility – Tada offers real-time visibility • Real-time Collaboration – Tada provides the
not only across a company’s internal supply chain tools needed for real-time collaboration between
systems but also their partners, suppliers, contract key company stakeholders and their multi-tiered
manufacturers, transportation carriers, and third- suppliers.
party logistics.
• Real-time Orchestration – Tada helps supply chain
• Real-time Workflow – Tada’s digital processes professionals make the right decisions at the right
inherently enable automation across the entire time with the right amount of data through our data
supply chain workflow. Users can easily track the fabric. We provide real-time orchestration, with the
progress of various items across the organization ability to use a vast amount of data to synchronize
in real-time and escalate issues quickly for supply and demand across various systems.
maximum compliance and performance.

Core Components

• Data Integration – The cornerstone of Tada’s Cognitive Control Tower is data integration. We have
the capability to ingest different types of data from over 150 sources and connect them to form a data
fabric. We integrate a multiplicity of data sources and types via metadata sharing, metadata analysis,
and metadata-enabled self-healing. This data integration, along with orchestration tools to manage
the environment, can handle soaring high data volumes and the rising demand for real-time insights.

Buyer Planner Executive Operations Demand Planning

Tada
Data Fabric

Data Warehouse
Data Warehouse
Data Lakes

INFOR IOT SAP Workday Sage Oracle IOT Data Lawson MS Dynamics Sales Force

Supply Chain & ERP Business Operations IOT Systems Distribution & CRM
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• Role Integration – Every supply chain role has • Business Logic Integration – Every business has its
different data needs and presentation requirements. own set of rules. Some require only a day’s worth
To make role integration easier, Tada creates secure, of material to be in any given production area. In
persona-based workbenches that integrate relevant contrast, others may only allow their inventory to be
data with an easy-to-use application for each of the carried for five days. Tada makes it easier to input
personas. It even offers the ability for each person to any business logic into our Cognitive Control Tower
create their own analytical workbenches. Commonly so that you can make a decision based on your
designed workbenches include those targeting company’s existing parameters.
executive, buyer, and planner roles.
• Ecosystems Integration – Tackling supply chain
• Process Integration – To make better business logistics internally is no longer sufficient. The
decisions, organizations must integrate their discrete future of supply chain optimization is collaboration
processes, something Tada does very efficiently. between an organization and its partners,
Our technology seamlessly blends advanced suppliers, transportation and logistics, customers,
analytics with workflows, allowing users to initiate dealers, and distributors. At Tada, we believe
workflow decisions based on insights immediately. when stakeholders within a supply chain link
together, everyone in the network benefits.

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Workbench by Job Function
Workbench Examples
Tada’s Cognitive Control Tower offers customizable
workbenches for various supply chain roles. These
workbenches show the applications and metrics needed
for each job function. Some of our profiles include
Planners, Supply Chain Executives, and Buyers.
Buyer Planner Executive

Buyer Workbench

Constraint Monitoring N-Tier Visibility

• Track highly constrained parts • N-Tier constraints (short
in a 30-day window to long term risk)
• Monitor critical constraints • Compliance and real-time
visibility across all tiers

Closed Loop Planning Aggregated Demand Signal

• Leverage recommendation engine for CLP • Discover EDI discrepancies
• Reports on inventory, capacity, & • Understand risk by part and supplier
demand by part, supplier, & facility

4M & Action Plan Management Capacity Collaboration

• Track critical suppliers • Compliance metrics on capacity
• 4M assessment & action plan • Show suppliers with capacity
constraints 3 months out

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 Planner Workbench

Supplier Collaboration Metrics

• Efficient collaboration with suppliers • Track actionable metrics on material plans
• Demand acknowledgment, inventory collaboration, • Get metrics on supplier compliance,
multi-tier mapping, & supplier capacity expedites, past dues, & MPoUs

Inbound Visibility Short Sheet

• Real-time In-transit parts visibility including • Supply risk coverage to production line demand
ASN info, Trailer info, & 3PL • Coverage based on in-transit and on-hand material

Inventory Visibility Corrective Action & Workflow

• Real-time network inventory visibility across factory • Leverage alerts to drive process compliance
warehouse, distribution centers & suppliers • Supplier corrective actions, approvals,
& notifications, escalations

“I have a lot of ad-hoc meetings and need to be prepared in

a hurry. In the past, that’s been difficult. With Tada, I can be
prepared and more in-tune with what is happening across
multiple business units.”

- Head of Supply Chain of a Fortune 100 Manufacturer

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 Supply Chain Executive Workbench

Inventory Profile Workflow Approvals

• Real-time visibility to inventory in network at each • Manage workflows and approve any
production facility, warehouse, and supplier escalations, including supplier compliance,
material shortages, & invoice freeze

Performance KPIs Executive Summary

• Extended visibility to all the key performance • Summarized metrics to assess overall health of
metrics such as expedites, MPoUs, & past dues the supply chain and generate business reports

Compliance KPIs Overall Risk Coverage

• Manage supplier adoption and compliance • Understand overall material risk and
• Track metrics for internal users coverage based on network inventory, ASNs
and supplier acknowledgements
• View risk by facility, supplier,
planner and drill into details

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Why Tada

Tada’s Cognitive Control Tower has a unique modular architecture that gives every role in the
supply chain the power to make meaningful predictive and prescriptive decisions. With end-
to-end real-time visibility and customized workbenches for planners, buyers, and executives,
businesses can collaborate and manage their supply chains like never before.

Data Integration Modular Multi-Vendor System

• Real-time data integration interfaces • Ability to start small and grow as opposed
from over 150 data sources including to buying the whole system from Day-1
popular ERD, MRP, and CRM systems
• Easy integration with other third-
• Data intake modalities include Excel, party supply chain software
manual input (forms), systems and APIs

Supply Chain Expertise Fastest Time for Deployment

• The Tada team has 25+ years of • Fully functional system done
expertise in Procurement, Supply Chain in weeks versus months
Planning and Execution, Operations
Management, and Strategic Planning • Prefabricated apps allow for
easy implementation
• Transforming supply chains for many
Fortune 100 organizations

Ecosystems Collaboration No-code Architecture

• Facilitate collaboration within an organization • Configurations of visuals, reports,
and external partners in the ecosystem and navigation without coding

• Portals for dealers, customers, • Users can create their own analytics dashboard
and n-tier suppliers with point and click via Business Explorer

• Secure individualized portals with

optional enabled blockchain for dealers,
customers, and n-tier suppliers

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