Disruption on supply chain impacts operational cycles of any business. Supply chain teams are vested with the responsibility of continuously monitoring the chain. Moreover, unidentified lapses may spiral into much larger issues impairing the business.

Supply chain managers facing front-end operations rely on daily monitoring reports. A day in the life of a supply chain manager involves gathering information about every link in the supply chain, assimilating data for trends, reconciling files, and generating deviations. This leaves less time for identification of larger issues such as which vendor is responsible for most stock variances, delays in deliveries, inaccuracies in dispatches and mismatches in orders. Often, the answers are known but difficult to quantify and pinpoint. Values associated with vendor lapses helps to drive action.