In recent years, companies have outgrown the traditional capabilities provided by hub and spoke, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Based on an increasingly omni-channel world, these systems are challenged to handle the combination of downstream demand variability, upstream supplier variability, and the risk that comes with leveraging global sourcing and supply chain strategies. Many brands today operate primarily as demand-based hubs, with production and logistics outsourced on a global basis. From an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) perspective, only having visibility and control one tier upstream in the supplier network is no longer sufficient from a corporate responsibility and reporting perspective. (....)