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GRAPHING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Shashank TiwariStephen Henderson

Pamela LuisRavi Kolli

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OUR CLIENT CHALLENGES“No idea what’s happening with our

operations”

“Unclear which suppliers put us at risk and when”

“Don’t know which shipments are late until they don’t arrive”

“We spend too much time integrating different systems—it takes us longer to move

information than products”

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(per CIO.com, avg. SAP/Oracle implementation costs $12-$16M, takes 18-20 months)

A SUPPLY CHAIN

RETAILDCT1 CM3PL

T23PL3PL3PL

SUPPLY CHAIN

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THE WORLDWIDE SUPPLY CHAIN

100’s CMs

1,000+ Carriers

100,000+ OEMs

1,000,000+ DCs

1,000,000+ Suppliers

1,000,000+ Retailers

Magnitudes

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THE CLOUD IS CHANGING THE GAME

• Economies of scale• Real-time monitoring• Big data insights• Supply Chain Graph

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WHY DID WE PICK NEO4J?Supply chain is

Fundamentally a Graph

Focus on our domain business questions and needs

Neo4j is proven, mature and reliable

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WHAT LESSONS HAVE WE LEARNED?

Modeling took many iterations

Business Rule validations can be tricky

Leverage the Traversal API early

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WHAT LESSONS HAVE WE LEARNED?Bulk Loading large

data sets isn’t universal

Beware of Version Mismatch between tools

Tuning Really Matters

Know What’s Coming Next from Neo4j

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