| | December 201419CIOReviewADecTec - Applied Decision Technologies, Inc.Business Intelligence Analytics to Enhance Supply Chain EfficiencyRam Pandit used games as a spring-board to boardroom success. While growing up, the Illinois research scholar loved to design creative outdoor games for kids, which enhanced his constructive learning experience. "It was a `learning-by-making' process which involves a lot of mathematical creation rather than consumption. Those experi-ences have helped me to drive my team to continuously strive for innovation and customer satisfaction," says Pandit, CEO of ADecTec. "Our solutions allow users to optimize and re-optimize their supply chain plans to achieve improvements con-tinuously," adds Pandit.In recent years, supply chains have become more complex processes with the rising frequency of disruptions, Pandit, however, opines that the fundamentals behind the supply chain remain the same ­ "businesses wants to get the right mate-rial to the right place, at right time, in the right amounts, and at the lowest cost." The company aims in offering robust solutions with the right blend of both practical op-erational functions and new technologies. "In the current scenario, it is important to have intelligent decision support tools to make appropriate actions. ADecTec is uniquely qualified to provide the linkages, visibility, and optimization of these com-plex variables from shop floor processes to business processes," says Pandit.Pandit also elucidates that the key challenges in the supply chain sector are related to changing culture, processes, practices, metrics, tools, and even roles and responsibilities. He further adds that customers often look for "enhancement of visibility, and predictability of raw mate-rial availability and disruptions." To over-come the snag, ADecTec's engagement process includes a business productivity improvement step followed by implemen-tation of processes and the technology so-lutions. From a CIO's perspective, Pandit points out the balancing of corporate level operations planning framework and solu-tions against real-time operational execu-tion capabilities as the main experiment-ing factor. "The intensity for real-time customer focused supply chains require coupling of business functions and de-cision support with actual process and manufacturing information and even with market driven Big Data," adds Pandit.ADecTec solutions specialize in bridg-ing the gap between corporate level func-tions such as operations support, logistics, transportation, procurement, customer service and shop floor manufacturing and monitoring processes. The company's focus is on providing enhanced visibil-ity with pertinent knowledge layered with smart planning and execution capabilities. "For example, we were successful in creat-ing a customized solution for a consumer products company to synchronize their production schedule across multiple pro-duction stages, functions, vendors, and processes; thus enabling the visibility," explains Pandit.ADecTec's data mining and process modeling capabilities provide deep in-sights into business dynamics and iden-tify potential for improvement. "We also design a quantifiable set of recommenda-tions with verified background data and process related to the existing operations and performance metrics," explains Pan-dit, who also believes enhanced customer satisfaction, team innovation and improv-ing customer profitability as the three main driving factors of the company.ADecTec uses state-of-art optimiza-tion, process improvement, and informa-tion technologies to provide productiv-ity enhancements. In one such scenario, a large paper products manufacturer ap-proached ADecTec to improve its paper machine scheduling due to high operation-al cost because of lack of synchronization between different elements, functions, and departments. ADecTec's optimized techniques streamlined the schedules and flow of materials, which resulted in lower-ing the production cost and enhancing the product quality.The company is planning to expand its wings into Asia with the Indian Sub Con-tinent as it strong base. Pandit is also plan-ning to innovate value added, optimization based decision support operations plan-ning system with an ability to incorpo-rate Big Data thoughts. "Similarly, social media trends are being included into de-mand forecasting. 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