Modern Supply Chain Solutions

Overcome disruptions and build a resilient supply chain. Through deep industry expertise, we help manufacturers and distributors uncover data-driven insights to optimize their supply chains end-to-end and predict and plan for future disruptions.

MODERNIZE AND OPTIMIZE

Create more resilient supply chain operations

Resilient supply chains give companies a competitive edge. Bain & Company analysis shows that investing in supply chain resilience can boost plant output by 15% to 25%. But supply chain organizations face many obstacles that affect resiliency, including workforce gaps, increased costs due to inflation/tariffs, inventory, changing demand, and ongoing disruption.

The silver lining? By embracing modern solutions, you can overcome resiliency challenges and unlock opportunities for growth and innovation.

As a 2x-global Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist for Supply Chain, MCA Connect helps supply chain organizations become more agile, efficient, and profitable.

Core Focus

Deep supply chain expertise

We understand the unique challenges supply chain organizations face because we’ve focused on transforming complex supply chains for over 20 years.

Get deep supply chain experience you can count on for:

Supply chain visibility

Gain the end-to-end visibility you need to predict and plan for disruptions. Get real-time monitoring and prescriptive recommendations with operator insights, shop floor analytics, and aggregated equipment data.

Data-inspired optimization

Leverage your data to optimize your supply chain from end-to-end. Uncover insights that drive better supplier performance management and diversification of supply. Become more proactive, predictive, and profitable with modern analytics that inspire innovation.

Robust sales and operations planning

Optimize your supply chain with integrated planning that spans demand, supply, inventory, and parts. Reimagine master planning with fixed interval scheduling that prioritizes orders you can build and ship right now.

Smart logistics and distribution

Drive growth and stay connected with smart logistics and distribution. Track containers from supplier to manufacturer and adjust as needed with intelligent container tracking.

Automation in operations

Leverage automation to streamline processes, reduce errors, and cut costs. Gain new efficiencies by automating inventory management, order processing, supply chain optimization, and more.

Supply chain data governance

Maintain the high level of data quality and strict governance process you need to reduce costs and improve efficiency. With trusted data, you can optimize inventory levels, streamline logistics, and make better sourcing decisions.

End-to-end sustainability

Empower your end-to-end supply chain with real-time visibility. Implement agile processes to adapt to ever-changing regulations, including the growing wave of mandatory sustainability requirements.

AI-powered automations

Harness the power of AI to predict disruptions, optimize logistics in real-time, and generate efficient procurement strategies. This translates to a more resilient, cost-effective, and future-proof supply chain.

“MCA Connect drives remarkable transformations with global clients. They make supply chain dreams a reality with the Microsoft Cloud, cutting on-hand inventory while maximizing fill rate performance, eliminating digital debt, enabling end-to-end visibility, and unlocking total global flexibility.”
Ray Smith, Global VP, Resilient & Sustainable Supply Chains, Microsoft

Uncover possibilities and take action

Use Connected Blueprint™ for Supply Chain Optimization

Start modernizing in just a few weeks with a practical plan built around your most critical business areas. Led by our industry experts, Connected Blueprint™ for Supply Chain will help you uncover broken links in your processes and opportunities to drive efficiency in 4-6 weeks.

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Reimagine master planning

Fixed Interval Scheduling

Receiving and scheduling hundreds of orders a day is no simple task, especially when the orders are unique and complex. MCA Connect’s Fixed Interval Scheduling selects and schedules only the orders you can build, finish, and ship right now. No more waiting for inventory or working around half-finished products on the shop floor. Revolutionize the way you manage your material, labor, and machines with scheduling windows of hours versus days.

Be data-inspired

MCA Connect Inspire Platform^®

Consolidate your data, optimize it for analytics, and make better, more timely decisions with a modern platform built for manufacturing and distribution. Powered by Microsoft Fabric technologies, Inspire Platform^® unlocks the value of your data to inspire innovation.

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end-to-end optimization

Supply Chain Solutions

Empower your business to be leaner, more profitable, and better prepared for whatever comes next. Our industry solutions complement Microsoft’s portfolio of products and helps fill the gaps to meet your supply chain needs.

Explore Microsoft solutions

Technology Solutions

Uncover actionable insights and digitally transform your business with the power of the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft’s full suite of secure cloud solutions unifies modern business applications and industry intelligence, empowering you to do more.

Dynamics 365

Execute against your strategic roadmap with Microsoft Dynamics 365 manufacturing implementations and integrations. Plus, streamline operations with Dynamics 365 Copilot, the world’s first AI copilot natively built-in to both CRM and ERP applications.

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Data and AI

Unlock efficiency and profitability with the latest data and AI technologies. Create more resilient supply chains, build agile smart factories, and unlock innovation with a secure, modern platform.

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Power Platform

Empower your manufacturing workforce with low-code tools to streamline processes, improve productivity, and reduce operational costs. Integrate Microsoft Copilot to supercharge your low-code development.

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PARTNER WITH AN INDUSTRY EXPERT

Why MCA Connect for Supply Chain?

“I would recommend MCA Connect to any manufacturer that wants to drive results. They helped us quickly identify problems and then focused resources to solve the issues.”

– Michael Wood, Plant Manager, Trivium Packaging