{"id":768431,"date":"2025-09-09T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&#038;p=768431"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:45:47","slug":"nexttech-supply-rerouting","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-supply-rerouting","title":{"rendered":"NextTech: Remapping the Supply Chain When Disruption Occurs"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_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":[],"tags":[641,483792,493190,1331,493191],"department":[488822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-768431","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-logistics","tag-nexttech","tag-route-analysis","tag-supply-chain","tag-supply-chain-disruption","department-sustainability-risk"],"acf":{"short_description":"Using geospatial analytics, logistics planners can reimagine and fortify supply chains in rapid response to disruption. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"<strong>Snapshot<\/strong>: For years, GIS technology has alerted companies to supply chain disruptions. Now, the software identifies alternate suppliers and helps executives reroute complex networks.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"When supply chains break, the first response is predictable: collect intelligence, assess the damage, brief leadership. But then comes the greater challenge.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhat are our options?\u201d\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s the moment that separates reactive organizations from resilient ones. The video below shows how geospatial analytics transforms that critical question from a scramble to a strategic response, empowering organizations to pinpoint alternate suppliers, map new routes, and avoid hazards.\r\n<h3><strong>Geospatial Triage for Supply Chain Disruption<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIn this hypothetical scenario, geographic information system (GIS) technology helps a company quickly establish new supply chain connections following an earthquake affecting the Hong Kong region."},{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_tqnm2arb","time":false,"start":0,"stop":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The first thing a supply chain executive sees is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-operational-basemap\">operational basemap<\/a> depicting the earthquake location and affected suppliers, along with information about its impact\u2014like how many units of product each supplier provides.\r\n\r\nNext, a GIS analyst can visualize the downstream effects. While the number of suppliers in the earthquake\u2019s impact zone is small, a map tracing their relationships downstream to manufacturing plants and customers reveals that dozens of partners may face product delays or shortages\u2014as far away as the Florida coast."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<strong>Sensing Disruption in Real Time<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTo spot global disruptions in near-real time, companies rely on data providers whose near real-time alerts can be displayed and analyzed on GIS maps.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In a global security and operations center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-gsoc-and-beyond\">GSOC<\/a>), a manager can use the GIS dashboard to send notifications of the supply chain disruption to procurement specialists, sales leaders, security managers, and other stakeholders.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the supply chain team works on a plan to ensure the steady flow of goods. By filtering the map to show alternate suppliers of the same product, decision-makers can compare metrics on pricing, quality, sustainability, compliance, or other criteria. Clicking on a supplier surfaces deeper context, including images of the component produced on-site as well as quantities on hand and delivery lead times.\r\n\r\nIn this scenario, company leaders would see that the alternate suppliers charge more for the same component\u2014an acceptable trade-off for the sake of business continuity.\r\n<h3><strong>Finding New Routes to Stability with Location Analytics<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThe video shows how a GIS analyst draws a boundary around the earthquake zone. This tells the supply chain model to avoid suppliers in that area and find new routes.\r\n\r\nGeospatial algorithms then generate the most efficient pathways between supply facilities and equipment manufacturers or retail stores."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<strong>Related Read:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\/\/ GM\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/gm-maps-supply-chain-risk\">watchful eye<\/a> on the supply chain","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Gliding a slider back and forth produces a before-and-after view of the supply chain disruption. Analysts can use this visualization to brief executives on the new shape of the organization\u2019s global network.\r\n\r\nWith a temporary supply base in Singapore, the web of shipping lanes and the geographic complexion of suppliers shifts. But thanks to location analytics, the flow of goods remains stable and stores stay stocked with inventory.\r\n<h3><strong>Turning What-If Questions into Simulations<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThe video focuses on an earthquake, but a supply chain analyst can use the same location technology to respond to many other events, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/amid-global-trade-uncertainty-the-new-must-have-dashboard-is-a-map\">sudden rollout of regional tariffs<\/a> or the discovery that a Tier 3 supplier is engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/new-law-demands-geographic-coordinates-from-the-supply-chain\">deforestation<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWith a GIS map, supply chain departments can turn a senior leader\u2019s question\u2014<em>What are our options?<\/em>\u2014into real-time simulations, played out on a screen in a conference room. This new ability to redesign supply networks ultimately rests on a strong foundation of geographic data.\r\n\r\nWhen companies can map who their suppliers are, where they\u2019re located, and how supply nodes are connected, they can convert this location intelligence into decisive action."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rerouting Around Supply Chain Disruption<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Geospatial analytics helps companies identify alternate suppliers and reroute supply chains when a disruption occurs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-supply-rerouting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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