ThroughPut: Supercharging Supply Chain Management with AI

By prefixing the word ‘over’ with the following: ordering, stocking, producing, and spending, one would find themselves describing the four main challenges that curtail an organization’s manufacturing, supply chain, and warehousing operations. And one of the main reasons for the persistence of these problems revolves around antiquated upstream and downstream operation practices and legacy systems. Companies depending on such conventionally architected supply chains are setting themselves up to fail in today’s highly competitive and technologically advanced marketplace. In order to help enterprises overcome these hurdles, logistics and supply chain solution providers began developing visibility platforms and point solutions that sought to improve material flow processes. However, according to Ali H. Raza, founder and CEO of leading supply chain solutions provider—Throughput—visibility is not the same as flow. This implies that organizations are in need of a new element in their efforts to streamline their upstream and downstream operations. ThroughPut possesses that element—in the form of artificial intelligence—and impressively applies it within the context of supply chain management. “We have built an AI system that helps put material flow on autopilot,” states Raza.

ThroughPut, founded only four years ago, supports companies by eliminating supply chain bottlenecks and improving cash flow. Its AI-driven solution maintains the ability to sense changes in downstream demand directly from the customer and quickly reorient manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, and distribution processes to satisfy consumer needs on an ongoing basis. The challenges of over-ordering, -stocking, -producing, and -spending are addressed simultaneously. Here, the company’s AI system covers every supply chain workflow seamlessly in an end-to-end fashion. “We work very closely with various CIOs and COOs that seek innovative methods to solve material flow problems and develop our solutions accordingly,” expresses Raza.

Helping ERP heads manage several aspects of their supply chain, ThroughPut fills in the gaps between each operation on the shop floor to create a more holistic, conducive approach toward enterprise-wide workflow improvement. For example, after a manufacturer finishes production, distribution via retail is generally the next step.