{"id":521862,"date":"2022-06-28T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=521862"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:59:55","slug":"nexttech-supply-chain-transparency","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-supply-chain-transparency","title":{"rendered":"NextTech: Tracing Relationships through the Supply Chain"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10862],"tags":[479072,281,22772,483792,1331],"department":[488822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-521862","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri","tag-global-business","tag-location-intelligence","tag-manufacturing","tag-nexttech","tag-supply-chain","department-sustainability-risk"],"acf":{"short_description":"A new tool can help executives untangle supply chain disruptions by illuminating the relationships that underpin a production process.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Behind the products and devices that populate everyday life lie global trade systems of extraordinary complexity\u2014and increasing fragility<\/a>.\r\n\r\nA modern car<\/a> is composed of approximately 30,000 parts<\/a>, generated by thousands of suppliers around the world. A single vehicle may use as many as 3,000 semiconductors<\/a> for everything from blind-spot monitoring<\/a> to seat position adjustment.\r\n\r\nAnother stalwart of today's global consumer market\u2014the iPhone\u2014is assembled from suppliers in 43 countries across six continents<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Article snapshot:<\/strong> Seldom have global supply chain executives worried more about the butterfly effect\u2014and never have they had so much analytical power to outmaneuver it. This NextTech demo shows how.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"For in-demand products, a disruption at even one supplier can rattle global markets. Recently, pandemic precautions, a winter storm in Texas, and a drought in Taiwan<\/a> stymied semiconductor production, forcing CEOs higher in the supply chain to shut down factories, furlough workers, and delay shipments to retailers.\r\n\r\nNow, a new capability in geographic information system (GIS) technology is creating supply chain transparency<\/a> that helps executives trace delays, shortages, geopolitical incidents, and other risks through multiple tiers of suppliers to anticipate\u2014and possibly avoid\u2014knock-on effects.\r\n\r\nSuch transparency stems from sophisticated location analysis, which reveals the relationships within global supply chains. By laying bare how a bottleneck at a single facility could impact an entire web of production, these spatial business insights<\/a>\u2014also known as location intelligence\u2014speed response times and decision-making in the C-suite.\r\n