Use case

Supply chain modernization for faster business change

Overview

Value delivered

Redesign complex supply chain systems and modernize them to enable AI-driven development processes. By combining Uvance Wayfinders’ transformation expertise with Fujitsu’s technology and implementation capabilities, organizations can build agile business foundations that continuously adapt to changing market and customer needs.

Challenges

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Increasingly complex supply chain systems

Solution approach

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Business and systems redesign & AI-driven development

Results

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Supply chain foundation built for change

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Challenges

Complex business systems hindering supply chain transformation

System Complexity

Structures become increasingly complex through years of continuous upgrades

Slow response to change

Unable to rapidly adapt to changes in products or production methods

Higher development effort

Longer lead times from impact assessment through testing

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Systems supporting supply chain operations tend to become increasingly complex after years of ongoing use and enhancement. At the same time, responding to changing business environments requires the ability to produce personalized products tailored to customer preferences within shorter timeframes and through high-mix, low-volume production models. What is needed is not simply modernization. Organizations need a system foundation that can continuously and rapidly adapt by incorporating changing business requirements and requests from customers and ecosystem partners in a timely manner.

What we do

Redesigning business and systems for AI-driven development

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A transformation approach for business-resilient systems

Step 1
Assessing the current state and identifying issues

Assess the structure and challenges of current operations and systems

Step 2
Comprehensive redesign based on the target business model

Redesign each layer based on the target business model

Step 3
Transformation to AI-driven development

Leverage CI/CD and AI to shorten development cycles and accelerate business change

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Wayfinders helps define the future business model while taking existing operations into account. Based on this vision, data, application, and infrastructure architectures are redesigned to support greater business agility. At the same time, an approach that maximizes the use of existing assets helps address accumulated technical debt efficiently. Development processes are transformed through CI/CD practices, and AI-driven development capabilities are embedded into the delivery lifecycle, significantly shortening development cycles and accelerating the implementation of business change.

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Impact

Building a supply chain foundation resilient to change

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Flexible system foundation

A flexible architecture that is easier to change
Transition to AI-driven development

Faster development and change

Reduced impact scope of changes
Shorter development and testing cycles

Greater business agility

Rapid response to business changes
Continuous productivity improvement

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By applying AI to labor-intensive testing activities, which often account for nearly half of system enhancement efforts, and fully automating them through CI/CD-based processes, some organizations have achieved approximately 30% improvements in development and maintenance productivity within these activities. In addition, API-enabling high-change areas such as user interfaces and integrations with internal and external systems helps localize the impact of changes on core functionality. In some cases, this has reduced development timelines by approximately 20% compared with typical enhancement cycles. As the scope of AI adoption continues to expand, further productivity improvements and shorter response times can be expected.

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Agentic transformation

The supply chain transformation featured in this use case is based on Uvance Wayfinders’ Agentic Transformation approach. Discover an approach to enterprise transformation for the AI agent era.

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