Please take a few moments to closely examine the following Deloitte Solution Provider Map and tell me who you think is missing. Then, I will tell you who I think should be on it.
Who is my missing provider – One Network Enterprises.
Why This Provider?
One paragraph—the opening paragraph from their “Our Story” page—was all it took. Sure, I did my usual digging into the company background, clients, and anything that tells me more than the usually polished “Madison Avenue” text or more sizzle than substance case studies.
Here is the paragraph:
“Back in 2002, Greg Brady, a supply chain visionary, and Ranjit Notani, a pioneer in multi-enterprise collaboration technology, came to the conclusion that the traditional paradigm of business-to-business collaboration built around enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed. Businesses must take an outside-in network view and together serve the end consumer.”
By the time Greg Brady and Ranjit Notani began their journey, I had already sold my company and was moving on to my next challenge. However, finally hearing of One Network Enterprises or “ONE” when I visited their site and read the above text, two statements jumped off the page:
- The traditional paradigm of business-to-business collaboration built around enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed.
- Businesses must take an outside-in-network view and together serve the end consumer.
For those following this blog since 2007, the above text will likely tweak a few recalls of the much-repeated words I used to describe how I developed my company’s platform in the late 1990s – early 2000s.
I don’t think you will need to read this again, but for any newcomers to the party, here are two excerpts:
In my fall 2004 analyses of a study on the use of web-based applications, I made the following observation:
It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture that is based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders, starting at the local or regional level. In other words, your organization gains control of it’s spend environment by relinquishing centralized functional control in favor of operational efficiencies originating on the front lines. This is the cornerstone of agent-based modeling.
Refer to the ONE website statement: enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed.
In 2007, I wrote the following in Part 7 of my Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Series:
In short, a Metaprise is a synchronized versus sequential architecture (private hub) that simultaneously links or incorporates the unique operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders on a real-world, real-time basis. This is a far cry from the “near” real-time capabilities of the much-touted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which links disparate systems or processes often referred to as the “loose coupling of services.”
Refer to the One website statement: Businesses must take an outside-in-network view.
While they don’t use the same terminology, they are actually discussing using an agent-based model rather than a traditional equation-based model.
Here are the results of developing and using an agent-based model in the late 1990s:
“By August 2003, a full production program was introduced and successfully tested. (In the test case, a major public sector organization realized a 23% cost of goods savings annually over a period of several years while simultaneously reducing the number of buyers required to manage the contract to 3 from an original 23. Delivery performance and product quality also improved dramatically.)”
Brady and Notani have taken the agent-based concept to a whole new level.
The obvious question is why, after more than 40 years in the high-tech and procurement industries, I had not heard of this company before now?
Enter The Deloitte Map
Now, I want to caution you that I am not yet close to finishing my assessment of this “ONE” company. In my continuing efforts to better understand the organization, I came across their Partners Page.
Take a quick look at the following screenshot, and tell me what you notice:
Do you need a hint – I didn’t think so.
My question is, why are they not on the Provider Solution Map if Deloitte is aware of One Network Enterprises?
There is more to this story, and for me personally, it was a great discovery. As I progress through my research process to potentially add them to my Top Ten Analyst Solution Provider Map, I will keep you posted.
In the meantime, I will leave you with the following excerpt from their LinkedIn page:
“One Network is the leading global provider of supply chain control towers and the Digital Supply Chain Network™. It is the only available solution that gives supply chain managers and executives end-to-end visibility with a single version of the truth, using one data model, from inbound supply to outbound order fulfillment and logistics, matching demand with available supply in real-time.”
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Who Is The “ONE” Missing From The Deloitte Solution Map?
Posted on May 27, 2024
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Please take a few moments to closely examine the following Deloitte Solution Provider Map and tell me who you think is missing. Then, I will tell you who I think should be on it.
Who is my missing provider – One Network Enterprises.
Why This Provider?
One paragraph—the opening paragraph from their “Our Story” page—was all it took. Sure, I did my usual digging into the company background, clients, and anything that tells me more than the usually polished “Madison Avenue” text or more sizzle than substance case studies.
Here is the paragraph:
“Back in 2002, Greg Brady, a supply chain visionary, and Ranjit Notani, a pioneer in multi-enterprise collaboration technology, came to the conclusion that the traditional paradigm of business-to-business collaboration built around enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed. Businesses must take an outside-in network view and together serve the end consumer.”
By the time Greg Brady and Ranjit Notani began their journey, I had already sold my company and was moving on to my next challenge. However, finally hearing of One Network Enterprises or “ONE” when I visited their site and read the above text, two statements jumped off the page:
For those following this blog since 2007, the above text will likely tweak a few recalls of the much-repeated words I used to describe how I developed my company’s platform in the late 1990s – early 2000s.
I don’t think you will need to read this again, but for any newcomers to the party, here are two excerpts:
In my fall 2004 analyses of a study on the use of web-based applications, I made the following observation:
It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture that is based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders, starting at the local or regional level. In other words, your organization gains control of it’s spend environment by relinquishing centralized functional control in favor of operational efficiencies originating on the front lines. This is the cornerstone of agent-based modeling.
Refer to the ONE website statement: enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed.
In 2007, I wrote the following in Part 7 of my Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Series:
In short, a Metaprise is a synchronized versus sequential architecture (private hub) that simultaneously links or incorporates the unique operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders on a real-world, real-time basis. This is a far cry from the “near” real-time capabilities of the much-touted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which links disparate systems or processes often referred to as the “loose coupling of services.”
Refer to the One website statement: Businesses must take an outside-in-network view.
While they don’t use the same terminology, they are actually discussing using an agent-based model rather than a traditional equation-based model.
Here are the results of developing and using an agent-based model in the late 1990s:
“By August 2003, a full production program was introduced and successfully tested. (In the test case, a major public sector organization realized a 23% cost of goods savings annually over a period of several years while simultaneously reducing the number of buyers required to manage the contract to 3 from an original 23. Delivery performance and product quality also improved dramatically.)”
Brady and Notani have taken the agent-based concept to a whole new level.
The obvious question is why, after more than 40 years in the high-tech and procurement industries, I had not heard of this company before now?
Enter The Deloitte Map
Now, I want to caution you that I am not yet close to finishing my assessment of this “ONE” company. In my continuing efforts to better understand the organization, I came across their Partners Page.
Take a quick look at the following screenshot, and tell me what you notice:
Do you need a hint – I didn’t think so.
My question is, why are they not on the Provider Solution Map if Deloitte is aware of One Network Enterprises?
There is more to this story, and for me personally, it was a great discovery. As I progress through my research process to potentially add them to my Top Ten Analyst Solution Provider Map, I will keep you posted.
In the meantime, I will leave you with the following excerpt from their LinkedIn page:
“One Network is the leading global provider of supply chain control towers and the Digital Supply Chain Network™. It is the only available solution that gives supply chain managers and executives end-to-end visibility with a single version of the truth, using one data model, from inbound supply to outbound order fulfillment and logistics, matching demand with available supply in real-time.”
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