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Unlocking real-time insights with customizable supply chain dashboards

Discover how your team can leverage customizable supply chain dashboards and harness real-time data to drive successful business strategies in manufacturing.

November 18, 20246 min read Share

Intelligent supply chain management technology has never been so accessible for businesses, but many teams are still facing significant data challenges. 

With metrics like inventory levels, demand patterns, and supplier inputs all constantly in flux, poor data quality, data inaccuracy and inconsistencies, and delays in processing and analysis, are just some of the supply chain data issues you might find yourself struggling with. 

In theory, harnessing all of that data for better business intelligence represents a significant opportunity.

But the sheer volume of it across the supply chain can be a tough knot to unravel—and it’s difficult for your supply chain team when valuable insights are buried:

• Supply chain operators don’t have a reliable or straightforward way to surface urgent items that need their attention.
• Supply chain managers need their teams to cobble together a dashboard from multiple sources to put together a big picture status report. 
• Executives lack an easy way to pull supply chain trends and analysis reports to inform major business decisions.
• And across the board, it’s hard to ensure that all your data is accurate and up-to-date.

The good news is that you can overcome these challenges with the right supply chain reporting tools and technology. 

To that end, Sage Supply Chain Intelligence is here to help you answer the most pressing questions about your orders and make it easier to take the necessary actions.

We’re excited to introduce our Custom Dashboard that allows every supply chain professional to add and rearrange widgets based on their role and day-to-day needs.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

Efficiency-boosting customizations for the supply chain operator’s dashboard

As a supply chain operator, you’re the team member responsible for ensuring the efficient and cost-effective end-to-end flow of goods from raw materials to final delivery.

And as such, you need a reliable way to surface immediate answers to the age-old question, “What needs my attention today?” 

With Sage Supply Chain Intelligence’s customizable dashboard and reports, supply chain operators have a project management control center at their fingertips, so they can take prompt action on what matters most. 

Rather than manually tracking down the latest updates to inform your daily task prioritization, you can now spring right into action and save time with a range of supply chain dashboard customization options.

Personalized to-do lists to put the spotlight on urgent tasks

Personalized to-do lists allow you to easily sort tasks by due dates, milestones, tasks, and task owners, and prioritize your task list accordingly.

Drag-and-drop widgets deliver order status updates and action items at a glance

With a range of supply chain and order summary widgets, you can keep tabs on order status updates and new action items for open orders, suppliers, shipment proposals, and payments.

Quickfilters on report views to zero in on the most relevant data

You can further customize the report views within your dashboard with the new Sage Supply Chain Intelligence Quickfilters tool.

This allows you to keep the info you need day-to-day accessible in as few clicks as possible—whether that’s drilling down into orders that have changed since their last login, shipments with payments due in the next 30 days, or anything in between.

Customizing status reports to help supply chain managers improve performance

“What’s the status? Where do we stand? What’s at risk?” 

These questions are a common refrain for supply chain managers. You need to know the status of every order—and exactly what’s at stake—whether you’re turning on a dime to mitigate disruptions or shifting into damage control for overdue orders. 

Dynamic status reports are the solution.

With Sage Supply Chain Intelligence, you can customize your dashboard to put real-time status reports front-and-center, and easily hone in on the window of time that’s most relevant to you. 

Managing risk with custom widgets for upcoming order milestones

To successfully juggle open orders and the dependencies that come with them, you need an easy way to keep tabs on upcoming milestones and due dates.

Sage Supply Chain Intelligence lets you add a custom tableview to your dashboard, giving you easy access to a real-time list of orders with at least one milestone due within seven days, a month, or any time frame you set. 

Production lead time trend reports enable data-driven decisions and supplier performance reviews

Supply chain managers need to keep a finger on the pulse of production lead time trends in order to make informed decisions about production timelines and quantities, as well as overall supply chain optimization.

The Sage Supply Chain Intelligence production lead time widget makes it easy to spot trends and prevent delays before they happen.

It also uses up-to-the-minute data to guide supplier performance reviews and quarterly business reviews with your manufacturing teams. 

Unlocking the real-time insights supply chain executives need to deliver results

Despite being at the helm of mission critical business decisions, many supply chain executives struggle to pull the trends and reports they need to answer hard-hitting questions like, “What business decisions do we need to make to minimize costs and maximize efficiency?” 

Rather than waiting around for manual reports on major considerations—like spend and production over time, delivery, and suppliers—you can save time with custom dashboards, built for meaningful analysis at the executive level. 

Analyzing part spend over time with tables and visualizations

Sage Supply Chain Intelligence’s customizable tables and visualizations lets you explore part spend over time relative to total order costs for a specific timeframe.

You can also toggle between table views and graph views to effectively document and communicate your analysis with stakeholders. 

Visualizing total spend over time at the order level

You can use the custom reports in Sage Supply Chain Intelligence to visualize your total historical PO spend over time, rounding out your cost analysis with 360 degree visibility into production spend.

Toggle between different timeframes and view the data in table or graph format, as needed.

Setting supply chain teams up for success with real-time insights

There’s too much at stake to risk basing your business decisions on delayed or inaccurate information from manual reporting processes.

But with intelligent supply chain solutions, you can revolutionize your processes and equip your teams with actionable, real-time insights. 

This shift not only enables proactive decision-making and agility in response to potential disruptions, but fosters collaboration across your entire supply chain ecosystem.

It all starts with unlocking the full potential of supply chain data with Sage Supply Chain Intelligence and its reporting and dashboard customizations, designed to help your team drive growth, efficiency, and resilience—no matter what the logistical landscape has in store.