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Why 

The Intercloud Fabric POC is a significant step forward on our journey to a high-

visibility, analytics-driven supply chain. 

We’ll see visibility improvements quickly. In 

order booking, for example, real-time, more granular visibility will help us increase on-

time shipments, and react to lead time attainment, lead time as scheduled, and other 

key performance indicators faster. 

Product delivery milestones will improve. Everyone across the supply chain, including 

Cisco customers with access to data in the cloud, will know when and where a 

shipment is throughout the delivery lifecycle. This visibility will boost productivity at 

our regional locations and lower logistics planning costs for both Cisco and our 

partners. 

We’ll also see data management gains. Multiple layers of data are exchanged between Cisco and our partners, and the data is 

aggregated in a central location (Cisco cloud or the provider cloud). 

“The frequency of that data will be much faster than we currently see it,” says Yogee Katbamna, Director, IS, Supply Chain 
Management at Cisco. “The accuracy of the data can be validated, updated, and changed quicker. This will give us more accurate, 
clean, and timely data to act on.” 

We anticipate other benefits from using Intercloud Fabric, in data management and process innovation, for example

. We’ll become 

more adept at harnessing intelligence from all the data being collected, and using analytics to move from reactive to proactive to 

predictive capabilities and faster decision making throughout the supply chain ecosystem. 

The supply chain and logistics are tremendous areas of opportunity for the Internet of Everything (IoE). Technology trends such as 

cloud and mobility only broaden the opportunities further. Intercloud Fabric provides seamless connections across the supply 

chain, serving as a backbone for the IoE. When the IoE works, the entire supply chain can react in real time to changes in 

inventory, delivery, and demand. 

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●  Intercloud Fabric Director is a web-based 

end-user and IT admin self-service portal for 
lifecycle management of physical, virtual, and 
cloud workloads. 

●  Intercloud Fabric Secure Extender creates 

highly secure connectivity across multiple 
clouds, and helps ensure secure  
workload migration by maintaining all  
network and security policies specific to  
each workload. 

The solution is supported by the Cisco Virtual 
Security Gateway and Cisco Cloud Services 
Router.