Digital Supply Chain Twin
Create a dynamic virtual replica of your supply chain. Plan what’s next with confidence in the Atlas Planning Platform.
Model Your Supply Chain. Test Drive Better Outcomes.
Modern supply chains are too interconnected, dynamic, and complex to manage with static data and disconnected planning processes. A digital supply chain twin (DSCT) creates a dynamic, virtual representation of your physical supply chain, connecting the people, products, facilities, suppliers, customers, resources, constraints, and relationships that make your network work.
The Atlas Planning Platform allows you to model these complex interdependencies, understand how changes will affect the broader network, and simulate potential courses of action before making decisions in the real world.
Built to Experiment. Designed to Perform.
A dynamic digital replica of your supply chain, the Atlas digital supply chain twin continuously reflects the relationships and interdependencies across your end-to-end supply chain value network.
End-to-End Supply Chain Modeling
Create a connected representation of your multi-enterprise supply chain, including suppliers, manufacturing, inventory, customers, resources, capacities, and more.
Near-Real-Time Visibility
Bring together granular data and signals from across the supply chain to maintain a current view of network conditions and relationships.
Scenario Simulation
Test different assumptions, disruptions, strategies, and decisions in a virtual environment before implementing them in the physical supply chain.
Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics
Use advanced analytics and AI to anticipate potential outcomes and identify recommended courses of action.
Intelligent Orchestration
Connect decisions across planning processes and, where appropriate, automate short-term decisions and interact with execution systems.
Multi-horizon Planning
Support strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making within a connected model rather than treating each planning horizon in isolation.
Constraint and Dependency Modeling
Understand how capacity, inventory, lead times, sourcing, production, transportation, and other constraints interact across the network.
Continuous Optimization
Continuously validate, refine, and improve the model as new data, relationships, and business conditions emerge.
Test Decisions in a Digital World. Drive Results in the Real One.
One of the biggest advantages of a digital supply chain twin is the ability to experiment without disrupting the real supply chain. With Atlas, your team can experiment with scenarios that reflect possible changes to the network and evaluate their potential impact before taking action. For example:
- Demand changes. Simulate a sudden increase or decrease in demand and evaluate the impact on inventory, supply, production, capacity, and profitability.
- Supply disruption. Model the loss of a supplier and assess alternative sourcing options, lead times, costs, and customer impacts.
- Production constraints. Evaluate alternative production lines, facilities, or schedules when capacity becomes constrained.
- Network changes. Explore alternative transportation routes, distribution strategies, facilities, or sourcing relationships.
- New product introductions. Assess how a new product could affect demand, inventory, capacity, supply, and network performance.
Your DSCT brings together data from internal and external sources to provide an end-to-end view across multiple planning horizons and tiers of the supply chain.
- Customers, products, orders, and demand
- Suppliers and supplier risk
- Plants, facilities, and distribution networks
- Inventory, lead times, resources, and capacities
- Manufacturing and execution systems
- Transportation and logistics
- IoT, GPS, and other real-time signals
- External market and business data
Supply chain visibility is no longer enough. You need the ability to understand how one decision can affect the rest of the network and evaluate alternatives before committing to a path forward.nA digital twin makes those relationships visible and actionable.
Maintain a connected representation of the supply chain, allowing you to explore the potential impact of changes in demand, supply, capacity, inventory, transportation, sourcing, and more. This allows your team to move from “What is happening?” to “What could happen?” and “What should we do?”
Digital Twins Across the Planning Process
A digital twin becomes even more powerful when connected to the planning processes that use it.
| Planning Challenge | How the Digital Twin Helps |
| Demand & replenishment | Simulate demand changes and understand their impact across the network. |
| Inventory optimization | Balance service levels, inventory investment, and supply constraints. |
| Supply planning | Evaluate sourcing, production, capacity, and material alternatives. |
| Scenario planning | Compare potential futures and identify the best course of action. |
| Disruption management | Model disruptions and test mitigation strategies before acting. |
| Network planning | Evaluate changes to facilities, suppliers, transportation, and flows. |
| S&OP / IBP | Provide a common model for cross-functional decisions. |
| Execution | Enable selected decisions to flow into execution systems when appropriate. |
Build a More Intelligent Supply Chain
See the Whole Picture
Gain an end-to-end view across your interconnected supply chain and the relationships that drive it. A common view of the network allows for decisions based on a more complete picture, not isolated data or assumptions.
Test Before You Act
Model different options, understand potential impacts, and compare alternative courses of action before making decisions in the real world.
Know What’s Next
Leverage predictive intelligence to anticipate changes and potential disruptions Understand how these shifts ripple across your supply chain before they become critical. Respond with greater speed and confidence when conditions change.
Align Decisions Across the Organization
Create a shared, connected view of the supply chain that brings teams and business functions together around the same data, assumptions, and scenarios. Move beyond functional silos and execute more coordinated decisions.
Turn Data into Action
Connect the digital twin with AI, ML, advanced analytics and intelligent workflows. Move beyond simply identifying what is happening to predicting what could happen and what to do next.
Plan for Uncertainty
Model uncertainty and evaluate potential outcomes, from changing demand and lead times to supply variability and beyond. Combined with probabilistic planning, Atlas helps you understand the likelihood of different outcomes to make better decisions.
Drive continuous improvement
Evolve your digital supply chain twin as your business grows, continuously incorporating new data and learnings from the physical supply chain. Your model can be refined and optimized to help you adapt to changing markets, seasonal patterns, and evolving dynamics.
A digital supply chain twin isn't something you simply switch on. Its value depends on the quality of the underlying data, the model’s relationships, and the organization's ability to effectively use it. We are here to support that journey. We work with companies across different levels of supply chain maturity to help them build capabilities, starting with the business challenges that matter most, and expanding as value is delivered.
Start: Establish the data, processes, models, and planning capabilities needed to create a reliable foundation.
Evolve: Connect planning processes, incorporate additional data and signals, expand scenario capabilities, and increase the sophistication of the digital model.
Accelerate: Leverage AI, advanced analytics, automation, and intelligent orchestration to continuously improve decisions across the supply chain.
A Partner for the Journey
Your supply chain already exists as a complex network of relationships, dependencies, constraints, and decisions. The Atlas Planning Platform helps you create a digital representation of that network, so you can see it, understand it, simulate it, and make better decisions.
We combine advanced planning technology with deep supply chain expertise to help teams build, enhance, and leverage their digital supply chain twin. Every supply chain is different, and the right starting point depends on your data, processes, network complexity, planning maturity, and business priorities. As your needs evolve, your digital twin can evolve with them.
Let’s help you build a smarter digital supply chain with Atlas