AS the complex global supply chain logjam continues, two companies are offering customers a better way to strategically use data and technology to maximize competitive advantage. Analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) leader SAS and Cosmo Tech, an influential creator of complex simulation and digital twin supply chain technology, have become partners. They will use their collective expertise to build a hybrid AI-powered digital twin solution that helps connect demand planning and forecasting with production and inventory planning to create more resilient end-to-end supply chains.

'For supply chain managers, it's difficult to predict the impact of a decision, a disruption or an unexpected event on the entire organization,' said Hugues de Bantel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cosmo Tech. 'SAS and Cosmo Tech's combined technologies let customers understand in real time not only how organizations are performing, but how they will perform even in situations they've never experienced before.'