Rethinking the control tower
Most control towers are designed to deal with disruption once it is already happening.
The next step is to identify risk earlier, understand where pressure is building, and give teams the ability to act before problems turn into service failure, cost, or delay.
The Supply Chain Radar is a concept that illustrates what that future could look like.
In practice, that means the ability to:
• Score the relative risk of every shipment
• Refresh that view continuously as conditions change
• Show shipment risk clearly and visually
• Prioritise the next likely issue before it becomes urgent
• Explore the underlying drivers behind an elevated risk score
• Alert the team when risk changes significantly
• View risk by geography, supplier, customer, operator, team, or other relevant lenses
Why this matters
A proactive control tower gives operational teams more than visibility. It gives them time, focus, and better decision support.
Instead of being trapped in constant reaction, they can concentrate on mitigation, prioritisation, and protecting outcomes.
The Supply Chain Radar is not presented as an off-the-shelf product. It is a practical example of the kind of thinking now possible when AI is applied properly to real operational challenges.
