A once-a-decade system decision can't keep pace with daily disruption
NMB Solutions connects Microsoft Dynamics 365 to best-of-breed supply chain applications rather than building that functionality itself. Chris Winstanley, vice president of solutions management, says that approach exists because of a timing mismatch: companies might only decide to rip and replace a core system once a decade, but the supply chain world, and the technology available to address disruption, changes almost daily. That mismatch is pushing companies away from a familiar setup: monolithic applications and heavily integrated platforms that are hard to change piece by piece. A system that looked future-proof and resilient when it was installed can fall out of step with the market only a few years later.
Monolithic applications that lock a business into one vendor's full stack
Heavily integrated platforms that are difficult to change incrementally
Systems that were future-proof at implementation but age out of step with a fast-moving market
The result is technology that stops being resilient or future-proof only a few years after it was implemented.
Treating the supply chain as an ecosystem, not a single platform
NMB sees an alternative taking hold: a supply chain ecosystem made up of service-driven, API-connected applications that companies can adopt individually as they need them, layered on top of what they already run, rather than betting on one heavily integrated platform. Winstanley describes it as a more modular, pick-and-choose approach to supply chain technology.
As a Microsoft ISV, NMB Solutions builds that modularity directly into Dynamics 365 through standardized and custom connections to e2open, including:
Standardized connections for transportation (shippers) and parcel shipping
Standardized connections for global trade management
Custom, configurable integrations for functions such as business planning
What's ahead: A long-standing partnership built for a connected ecosystem
NMB Solutions and e2open have partnered for a number of years, and Winstanley says the next phase of that work is about connectivity between ecosystems: bringing together everything e2open does across the end-to-end supply chain with everything happening in the Microsoft and Dynamics 365 community, and building the connections that let the two talk to each other.
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