Supply Chain

Optimize your supply chain with AWS

Gain end-to-end, real-time visibility and insights beyond immediate suppliers to build a resilient, intelligent, and cost-effective supply chain.
Today’s automotive supply chains are global networks of manufacturers, suppliers, dealerships, and digital retailers that work together to deliver products to the end customer. Industry challenges including forecast inaccuracies, parts shortages, and insufficient ability to track and trace has accelerated the transformation to cloud-based solutions. Modern supply chains continue to expand, and they also are becoming more complex and disparate with the need for single pane of glass view. Solutions built using AWS services provide the end-to-end visibility in today’s supply chains.

Benefits

Improve forecast accuracy
Use forecasts that are up to 50% more accurate with Amazon Forecast. Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, it automatically discovers how time series data and other variables like product features and store locations affect each other.
Reduce inventory costs
Determine how much inventory to purchase and allocate with more accurate customer demand forecasts with Amazon Forecast. This helps you reduce inventory costs, while still ensuring a good customer experience.
Improve supply chain visibility and traceability
Facilitate Tier-N supplier network mapping for predicting supply disruption and improve the ability to trace parts in transit for better predictive ETAs.
Improve capacity utilization
Easily integrate more accurate forecasting into your existing business processes to improve capacity utilization. AWS supply chain management services integrate with your existing tools, such as SAP and Oracle Supply Chain.

Supply Chain use cases and solutions

Explore solutions by use case

Demand Forecasting & Planning

Analyze data at scale; reduce the impact of demand variation on the business and customers; and streamline communications between sales, marketing, and supply chain stakeholders.

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Supply Chain Control Tower

Identify bottlenecks, forecast demand, and accelerate fulfillment by gaining full observability into supply chains and building analytics dashboards that centralize all operational data in one place.

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Traceability

Improve the traceability of the entire vehicle life cycle—from manufacturing to routine maintenance—to validate the quality of parts, inform service campaigns, and mitigate recalls and returns in near real time.
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Supply Chain Tracking

Get transparency into the health of upstream suppliers, real time visibility into parts logistics, and AI/ML driven insights into bottlenecks helping avoid chargebacks.

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Spare Parts Planning & Replenishment

Improve predictability by bringing the right data sources together and leveraging AI/ML capabilities along with external factors, telematics data, and available capacity into the planning phase.

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Price Optimal

Pricefx is an end-to-end, cloud-native platform supporting the entire pricing journey, from setting optimal list prices and managing the rebate process to optimize your organization?s pricing.

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Intelligent Planning with PlanIQ

The solution forecasts future demand based on historical, internal and external demand signals. Decision makers are presented with Forecast predictions, demand drivers, and scenarios based on pricing, promotions, and assortment inputs, to confidently make supply chain and financial decisions.

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Inventory Flow

Inventory Flow sets a new execution standard for planners in the 0-16 week planning horizon. Noodle.ai AI engines ingest massive amounts of data to accurately predict supply-demand imbalances at SKU/DC/week level and recommend the optimal mitigation actions.

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HERE Supply Chain

Improve your supply chain operations with increased efficiency, seamless indoor-outdoor tracking and accurate multimodal ETAs.

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Get started with select AWS services

AWS IoT Core lets you connect billions of IoT devices and route trillions of messages to AWS services without managing infrastructure.
Make accurate predictions, get deeper insights from your data, reduce operational overhead, and improve customer experience with AWS machine learning (ML).
AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service for building, deploying, and managing device software.
AWS provides the broadest selection of analytics services that fit all your data analytics needs and enables organizations of all sizes and industries to reinvent their business with data.
Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public networks or create and manage scalable private networks using the popular open-source frameworks Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum.
Amazon Forecast is a time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML) and built for business metrics analysis.

Customer stories

Learn how leading automotive companies are transforming their businesses with AWS Supply Chain solutions.

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Fleet Complete Uses AWS to Fuel Innovation and Generate Deeper Insights from IoT Data

By using smart sensors, connected to the cloud, to collect and transmit business-critical data from vehicles, assets, and employees, Fleet Complete helps fleet owners gain new insights into vehicle health, driver behavior, and more. Fleet Complete has experienced tenfold growth over the past several years, and it currently serves 35,000 businesses across 15 countries. To stay ahead of this data growth, the company needed more scalability for its IoT data analytics applications.

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Convoy Is Revolutionizing Trucking Through Machine Learning

Convoy uses Amazon SageMaker to provide better matches for shippers and truckers. AWS machine learning technology can be used to match pickups  and deliveries, maximizing the utilization of assets (trucks, containers, and chassis).

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Nestlé brings supply chain transparency with Amazon Managed Blockchain

Using the AWS Managed Blockchain service, the data entered at the source of harvesting is digitized to provide a full history of location, time harvested, shipping, and quality information.

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Innovate with key industry partners

Engage with a global community of AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.

Resources

Check out AWS Automotive blog posts, videos, podcasts, and other resources to learn more and stay up to date on the latest developments.

Featured resource

Campfire Interactive Profitability and Network Risk Solution

Campfire Interactive’s strategic relationship with AWS provides automotive businesses with an end-to-end solution to unlock profit potential within a highly reliable, scalable, cost-effective, cloud-based infrastructure platform.

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Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning

The Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning solution generates, tests, compares, and iterates on Amazon Forecast forecasts. It automatically produces forecasts and generates visualization dashboards, providing a quick, easy, drag-and-drop interface that displays time series input and forecasted output.

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Aramex improves the Customer Experience by deploying Amazon SageMaker

Aramex deployed an AWS Machine Learning solution, which takes advantage of Amazon SageMaker and other AWS services, to predictively analyze shipment transit times.

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Volkswagen Industrial Cloud

Volkswagen Group manufactures some 11 million cars per year and brings 200 million parts per day into its factories—a massive scale at which to operate an effective global supply chain. Volkswagen is working with AWS to move its 124 factory sites to a single architecture: the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud.

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Get started

Automotive companies of all types and sizes—from global automakers to startups—rely on AWS. Contact our experts and start your own journey to the cloud today.
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