How Moderna Is building a healthier supply chain (BIZ220)
Reinventing Supply Chain with AWS and Moderna
Moderna's Transformation Journey
Moderna faced a unique challenge in distributing COVID-19 vaccines across the United States:
Vaccines had a short shelf life and needed to be delivered on time to over 13,000 pharmacies.
Population shifts and demand volatility made accurate forecasting and planning critical.
Moderna leveraged AWS technology to build a comprehensive supply chain solution:
M-Data Platform: Integrated diverse data sources (Google Trends, logistics providers, wholesalers, CDC, IoT) to generate insights.
Demand Forecasting: Used machine learning algorithms to forecast demand at national, state, and store levels.
Supply Chain Planning: Collaborated with AWS experts to optimize replenishment quantities, manage stock-out risks, and generate delivery plans.
Logistics Control Tower: Tracked shipments in real-time, monitored temperature and location, and provided weather-based delivery schedules.
Empowering Supply Chain Planners with Generative AI
Supply chain planning is often a manual, data-intensive process, leading to endless questions and limited time for value-added work.
AWS introduced Amazon Q for Supply Chain, an interactive generative AI engine that can:
Proactively identify issues
Provide rapid answers to planners' questions
Enable predictive, descriptive, prescriptive, and diagnostic insights
By automating manual processes, planners can shift their focus to more strategic, innovative work.
The Future of Supply Chain
AWS Supply Chain aims to continually innovate and evolve, leveraging the latest technologies like generative AI.
The goal is to reduce risk, lower costs, and enable supply chain teams to focus on higher-value activities.
Attendees are encouraged to consider what manual processes they would like to automate in their own organizations, and how that could unlock new opportunities for their teams.
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