Aera Digital Control Tower
An Eagle-Eye View
Aera Digital Control Tower Skill continuously monitors the business to identify and predict demand, working capital and cost risks, then prescribes appropriate actions to mitigate or overcome these risks.
Aera Digital Control Tower Skill offers real-time, end-to-end visibility into demand, supply, production and inventory utilizing an algorithmic library of key metrics, trends and analytics for supply chain performance. Leveraging data science, the Skill anticipates, identifies and alerts users to risks service levels, cost, working capital and capacity face. It suggests the most financially appropriate actions to overcome these risks by analyzing the end-to-end impacts of the different feasible scenarios.

Benefits
- Provides continuous, end-to-end visibility to business operations, establishing the foundation for better decision-making
- Increases service level and revenue by predicting the risk of shortages
- Optimizes cost-to-serve by analyzing the impact of supply actions on cost-to-serve
- Maximizes use of capacity by ensuring available capacity efficiently to meet demand
- Manages the rebalancing of inventory across the network
- Optimizes usage of assets by rebalancing inventory required to meet demand
Other Skills
Aera Forecast
Leverages machine learning algorithms that correlate data from historical sales, promotions, the market, and external factors to autonomously generate an accurate demand forecast with minimal to no human intervention.
Aera Logistics
Optimizes shipping networks, uncovering opportunities for more efficient transportation, identifying bottlenecks, and automating shipment delay resolution, to ensure customers receive the complete shipment on time, every time.
Aera Procurement
Integrates procurement strategy and automates daily procurement processes to enable a highly efficient and streamlined procurement process.
Aera Order
Recommends accurate order promises, allocations, and production plans to improve Available-to-Promise capabilities with real-time fulfillment visibility.
Aera Inventory
Balances capital investment constraints and service level goals while taking demand and supply volatility into account.
Aera Promotions
Monitors the competition and market trends, analyzes historical data, and recommends plans to perfect your promotions.