Cummins Inc has gone live on the One Network Enterprises (ONE) platform with attribute-based forecasting, multi-tier inventory optimisation and integrated inbound supply visibility.
Leveraging One Network's platform and industry-leading Supply Chain Control Tower solution, Cummins is improving real-time visibility across European aftermarket operations, enabling the company to identify and optimally resolve potential issues before they occur quickly. The solution also enhances collaboration, visibility, and execution capabilities to serve Cummins' customers and business partners better.
'We've put in place a unified platform that provides real-time visibility across a highly complex landscape with dozens of different business systems,' Alex Ward, Executive Director, Supply Chain Strategy and Transformation, Cummins Inc, said.
'As we roll out the control tower visibility, planning and execution capabilities, we have a clearer path to digital transformation as we move more business processes systematically onto ONE's real-time network layer over time. We believe that our business opportunity is substantial,' he added.
Cummins, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019, designs, manufactures, distributes, and services a broad portfolio of power solutions. The company's product range includes diesel and natural gas engines, hybrid and electric platforms, and related component technologies.
The company, like many organisations in the automotive industry, is addressing a growing number of challenges, including rapidly emerging new technologies; complex cost control through high and low demand cycles; visibility across business units due to acquisitions and historically siloed enterprise-centric ERP systems; achieving greater forecast accuracy and aggregate demand visibility, and the need to innovate rapidly and disrupt markets to gain share and increase competitiveness.
The new network-based platform for planning and execution helps to address these challenges and enables Cummins to gain, among others, a real-time, consolidated view of aftermarket inventory for any geography.
'The auto and industrial power industry is a dynamic market currently in a great state of flux with new technologies, new global demand shifts and complex supply chains,' Greg Brady, Founder and CEO of One Network Enterprises, said.
One Network's multi-tier, multiparty digital platform optimises and automates planning and execution across the entire supply network and every trading partner. It's the industry's only solution with a fully integrated data model from the consumer to suppliers and all logistics partners, providing a network-wide, real-time single version of the truth.