MÖBIUS UK Supply Chain Analytics Toolkit (MUSCAT) - Proof of Market

项目目的：评估供应链分析作为服务提供的商业可行性。供应链分析帮助企业做出更好的决策，从而优化其供应链，从降低运输成本到减少过时产品的浪费，带来无数好处。使用SC分析的企业还可以从提高客户服务水平中受益，从而增加销售额。根据我们的经验，通过分析提高可见性有助于减少8-31%的总营运资本，并增加1-5%的销售额，从而降低成本，提高增长、投资和就业。迄今为止，大多数实施SC分析的企业都是独立进行的，他们在分析系统和工具上投入巨资，并招聘越来越稀缺的分析师，这因此限制了全面SC分析的广泛采用。云计算和"即服务“模式被誉为使企业能够获得按需功能和创新服务产品的突破。值得注意的是，分析即服务（AaaS）与“标准”软件即服务（SaaS）模式不同：SaaS是用于向多个用户提供相同软件的IT，从而最大化IT投资的价值。AaaS既不是IT服务，也不是技术。这是一种定制的分析处理和分析输出的解释，是根据客户业务的具体特点量身定制的，由适当的分析软件工具提供支持。MÖBIUS UK对这项新服务的愿景是通过将领先供应商的“现成”软件与我们在供应链管理方面的内部专业知识相结合，使用AaaS模型，为中小企业和中型市场公司提供供应链分析。该项目的商业创新方面是通过开发“即服务”模式，将供应链分析从资本支出转移到运营支出。

Project Purpose: To assess the commercial viability of Supply Chain (SC) Analytics offered as a Service.Supply Chain Analytics helps businesses make better decisions and so optimise their supply chains, resulting in a myriad of benefits from reduced transport costs to less waste of out-ofdate product. Businesses using SC analytics can also benefit from improved customer service levels leading to increased sales. In our experience having increased visibility through analytics helps reduce overall working capital employed by 8-31% and increase sales by 1-5% so leading to reduced costs and higher growth, investment and employment.To date, most businesses implementing SC analytics have done so independently, investing heavily in analytics systems and tools as well as recruiting increasingly scarce analysts, which has consequently limited the widespread adoption of comprehensive SC analytics. Cloud computing and the ‘as a service’ model are hailed as breakthroughs which enable businesses to access capability-on-demand and innovative service offerings.Notably Analytics as a Service (AaaS) differs from a “standard” Software as a Service (SaaS)model: SaaS is the IT used to offer the same software to multiple users thus to maximising thevalue of IT investments. AaaS is not an IT service nor technology. It is the bespokeprocessing of the analysis and interpretation of the analytical output tailored to the specificcharacteristics of the client’s business, supported by appropriate analytical software tools.MÖBIUS UK’s vision for this new service is to make supply chain analytics available toSMEs and mid-market companies by combining “off-the-shelf” software from leading vendorswith our in-house expertise in supply chain management using an AaaS model. Thecommercially innovative aspect of this project is in moving supply chain analytics fromcapital expenditure to operating expenditure by developing an “as a service” model.