SCIP launched Optimize and Assure, two new decision intelligence capabilities designed to improve decision quality by helping organizations clarify priorities, validate choices, and build confidence in how decisions are made and defended.
“Trusted data is the starting point, not the finish line,” says Andy Kohm, co-founder and CEO of SCIP. “Optimize and Assure turn that foundation into decision intelligence, surfacing risks before they materialize and recommending actions that balance margin, risk, and speed, so leaders can move with confidence and defend their choices as the environment shifts.”
Key takeaways:
· Optimize introduces a continuous approach to supply chain decision making. Using trusted data across sourcing, engineering, operations, and sales, Optimize continuously monitors the supply chain to identify opportunities to reduce cost, lower risk, and simplify complexity before issues escalate. When changes occur anywhere in the system, whether at the component level, with a supplier or lead time, or from shifts in demand, Optimize traces the impact both upstream and downstream across inventory, production, revenue, and margin, bringing the organization onto a single set of facts. This drives deliberate decisions that align business objectives, improve profitability, and strengthen resilience as conditions evolve.
· Assure provides a continuous layer of risk and accountability across the supply chain. As decisions are increasingly reviewed by boards, regulators, customers, and partners, Assure continuously monitors compliance, vendor, and part-level risk across the enterprise. It screens vendors and transactions against global sanctions and regulatory requirements, maintains dynamic vendor risk profiles and scorecards, and identifies the specific components most likely to disrupt operations. By prescribing mitigation actions and preserving decision context, Assure reduces exposure, strengthens governance, and ensures organizations can clearly demonstrate how and why decisions were made, even as conditions change.
