前波
With the globalisation, supply chains are becoming increasingly complex. Just imagine, for an average passenger car you need 10.000 different parts – and those parts are coming from all over the world. Midsize manufacturing companies (Tier 2 / Tier 3 suppliers) already have hundreds of suppliers themselves. And those are also spread all over the world with more than 50 different national languages.
On the other hand, every minute that a company cannot produce is getting more and more expensive - manufacturing stops run up to $10000 per minute.
Do you know what happens in your supply chain? And can you afford to stop the production because of supplier problems?
Last year in the automotive industry there has been a fire or explosion every second day.
那么我们在做什么？
We are a leading supply chain risk platform used by manufacturing companies worldwide to improve the transparency and resilience of their supply chains.
我们基于人工智能（AI）的平台基于公共信息自动实时识别供应链中的风险。有了这些信息，您可以提前应对可能的交付瓶颈和生产停止。
Potential sustainability violations or the impact of natural disasters up to global Pandemics (Covid19) on your supply chain become immediately visible.
您可以直接在平台上与同事和供应商协作，快速做出决策，并在与供应商的合作中快速采取行动。
我们的技术基于Lisa Smith博士在维也纳技术大学五年的博士研究，并于2017年与Harald 万博体育下载appNitschinger一起作为大学“衍生产品”成立。我们在2019年推出了该平台，该平台正在使用人工智能分析来自新闻媒体、社交媒体和行业合作伙伴的50多种语言的海量数据。
What it Does
前波is a next-generation risk intelligence platform that analyzes social media, news media and third-party data feeds with advanced machine learning technology that can understand multiple languages. It can extract numerous categories of events, indicating potential risks, and then predict the likelihood of impact on a supplier and a supply chain that relies on that supplier.
While only a few years old, Prewave is a notable upstart that is focusing on deep risk intelligence rather than a full end-to-end supply chain risk platform with risk playbooks, recovery workflows, and so on. Notable capabilities include:
- 通过大规模可扩展AI/ML实现多语言语义新闻和情感评分
- AI/ML算法（向用户学习并减少误报）
- Freemium/API model is a particularly effective way to test out and prove value
- Basic trickle-down on-boarding for tier 2–n suppliers (that can deliver strong potential network effects
Why We Chose It
When considering Future 5 candidates for 2020, we knew we needed to select at least one vendor from the risk management space. Prewave was the compelling choice for several reasons.
First, it provides a powerful but lower-cost alternative to supply chain risk monitoring for firms that are looking for a “bid data” approach to identifying and mitigating event risk in their supply networks. Its use of an open API allows Prewave to integrate into a client’ existing S2P/supply chain software for universal use. And, perhaps most notable, Prewave’s use of a freemium model, which allows any business to monitor up to 100 suppliers for free, and for suppliers to do the same with suppliers, creates significant opportunity to create network scale and then turn that scale back into a business opportunity.
Any threats or challenges ahead?
虽然我们认为技术和能力令人印象深刻，但基本方法并不一定是新的。SCRM的先驱riskmethods和Resilinc为与供应商相关的社交媒体和新闻监控提供了类似的功能，尽管不一定采用相同的AI/ML语义方法。这两家供应商可以利用其更强大的品牌和在风险手册等领域更深入的支持，阻止Prewave进入更广阔的市场。Prewave还专注于技术，并且显然需要专注于其最初的大型客户，这可能会在其他SCRM供应商推动扩张时分散其对扩展工作的注意力。
不过，总体而言，Prewave在一个合适的时机获得了最初的名声。现在，公司需要更多的风险监控工具，而Peavew公司也可以使用“免费软件”来应对COVID-19世界的挑战。
DPW DEMO 2021
前波: Winner Risk & Resilience Category & Audience Vote Winner
What the judges said:
"The judges were impressed by the application of AI to open source data to deliver actionable insights around risk and supply chain."
About the "Risk & Resilience" category:
这类技术使风险评估和尽职调查成为采购流程的一部分。它们有助于采购组织了解风险、管理和缓解风险，并建立强大的供应链，包括上游和下游供应链，能够以最小的影响抵御中断并保持弹性。