The semiconductor industry faces critical supply chain challenges, including geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, high demand for advanced technologies, rising manufacturing costs, environmental concerns, and a talent shortage. Addressing these complexities requires innovative solutions like integrating Digital Thread, AI, and ML, which transform traditional supply chains into intelligent, agile, and resilient systems. These principles are especially powerful and valuable in the often-fragmented semiconductor supply chain. Complex technical product advancements, their influences on partner operations, and other commercial interdependencies among fabless designers, IDMs, Foundries, OSATs, EMSs, ODMs and other ecosystem partners create the need and opportunity for application of digital threads. Enhancements to existing supply chain practices and new operating capabilities are powered by the adoption of digital thread principles in the form and content of data, coupled with technologies that operate in concert with enterprise data systems. When brought together for the purpose of improving supply chain end-to-end performance, these established practices and technologies help to ‘future-proof’ technology and business investments while avoiding the trap of technical debt from tactical solutions. This session presents an integrated set of core principles for digital threads, industrial data management, and supply chain management. Examples of “DT+IDM+SCM” are offered.
Key Takeaways:
1. Learn the key principles and value propositions of digital threads and industrial data management as applicable in Semiconductor supply chains.
2. Understand the operational benefits and value metrics that justify the investments to implement digital thread enabled supply chains.
3. See case examples supply chains powered by digital thread and industrial data management principles and technologies.
