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Supply Chain & Manufacturing
How do you lead in a landscape where disruption is the norm? In the face of unprecedented change, ZS sees an opportunity for strategic supply chain and manufacturing leaders to innovate and transform. Don't just sustain success amid risk—reinvent your approach for organizationwide impact. Our supply chain and manufacturing experts, platforms and products can help you unlock agility and turn risk into resilience and growth.
From pharma and life sciences to consumer goods, retail, industrial products and travel, ZS can help unlock digital transformation, agility and efficiency to mitigate risks and reduce operational costs. Let us integrate real-time information and agentic AI applications to improve your visibility, generate predictive and prescriptive analytics and increase productivity in your supply chain and manufacturing operations.
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Supply chain design & planning
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Discover supply chain solutions that apply AI and machine learning to drive integration across the value chain.
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Logistics & distribution
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Better serve your customers by implementing winning distribution strategies and optimizing your transportation and warehousing operations.
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Manufacturing, engineering & quality
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Manufacturing, Engineering & Quality
Achieve process excellence and use digital and technology solutions to maximize yield, increase quality, ensure compliance and improve your shop floor experience.
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Clinical supply chain
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Reduce your research-to-release timeline, improve the quantity of your pipeline drugs and make your process more robust with digital twins, digital recipe management, lab of the future and intelligent knowledge management.
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Chemistry, manufacturing & controls (CMC)
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Accelerate drug development to delivery by optimizing CMC strategy, tech transfer and digital workflows with AI and data analytics solutions.
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Improve productivity, agility and resilience in supply chain and manufacturing
We supply the data, advanced analytics and the latest technology you need to transform your supply chain and manufacturing operations. Our experts, proprietary products and platforms help you reduce risk and cost while helping you design and implement digital connectivity.
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Turn resilience into strategic advantage
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Uncertainty doesn’t have to slow you down. ZS helps you build supply chains that adapt, learn and outperform competitors through intelligent planning, proactive sensing and agile execution. When resilience is more than a safeguard, it becomes a source of competitive strength and long-term growth.
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Model tomorrow’s decisions today
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Anticipate change before it happens. ZS builds digital twins and scenario-planning environments that let you test decisions before you make them. These empower you to evaluate trade-offs, run simulations of disruption and choose the strategy that best balances cost, service and sustainability with the confidence that comes from data-backed foresight.
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Connect decisions across the value chain
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Disconnected planning and friction can be costly. ZS helps you connect data, systems and stakeholders through a digital thread that bridges sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and demand. With secure, shareable insights and integrated workflows, you gain a single view of truth that accelerates decision-making and accountability across your enterprise.
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Translate the potential of your strategies into long-term value and growth for your business and drive transformational change across your enterprise.
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Evolve marketing by combining creativity, data and technology to make your marketing efforts smarter and more connected. By uniting insights, technology and talent, we help brands deliver personalized experiences, stronger performance and sustained growth.
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Maximize the value of data. From scalable data management, modern governance and AI-ready architectures, ZS helps you turn information into clarity and confidence.
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Reimagine enterprise analytics with AI solutions across research and development, brand strategy, pricing, marketing, sales, customer engagement, manufacturing and supply chain.
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Use purpose-built applications to accelerate agentic AI adoption in your supply chain to improve visibility, forecasting, planning and risk management.
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ZS manufacturing decision studio
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Leverage data from your shop floor to the top floor for smart manufacturing with our end-to-end solution for manufacturing, maintenance and quality.
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What supply chain and manufacturing digital investments generate the most value?
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Generative, traditional and agentic AI, including in the form of purpose-built tools, can drive significant value across multiple use cases—including automation, decision support, supply chain planning and agility, demand forecasting and stockout prediction.
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How can agentic AI improve supply chain resilience and optimize operations?
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ZS’s agentic AI can not only execute routine tasks, supporting efficiency and productivity, but can also build supply chain resilience by generating real-time data analysis, predictive insights and data-driven suggestions for operational improvement. And our AI agents do this with minimal oversight.
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How can we achieve end-to-end connectivity in supply chain and manufacturing?
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From design to delivery, supply chain and manufacturing leaders need real-time visibility and integrated planning across their own business units, commercial and R&D, as well as external stakeholders like suppliers. To achieve this connectivity, you must not only pursue tactical gains such as advanced demand-forecasting analytics but also align every function to shared organizational goals.
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How can predictive modeling and scenario planning improve supply chain planning?
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Predictive modeling and scenario planning—supported by ZS’s decision studios and digital supply chain frameworks—help companies move from reactive firefighting to anticipatory, adaptive planning that improves both resilience and cost-to-serve.
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How can we optimize our manufacturing performance with smart factory thinking and Industry 5.0?
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ZS's approach to manufacturing transformation blends people, processes and digital intelligence. Both smart factory adoption and Industry 5.0 take people-centered approaches to integrate digital tools, such as advanced analytics, with the human workforce. Examples of our approach to Industry 5.0 include the adoption of digital thread integration, where connected systems enable seamless data flow and agile decisions, and digital twins to simulate and optimize processes and assets.
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How can life sciences supply chain strategy reduce healthcare timelines from drug development to delivery?
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The most impactful ways supply chain leaders can reduce the time to get a medical innovation to a patient is via digital transformation of CMC and tech transfer strategy. AI and digital technologies can facilitate innovation, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, streamline document authoring, accelerate process validation, automate data analysis and even optimize the process design space.
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