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See the chain. Decide what happens next.

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See the chain. Change the outcome.

Choose the place that looks most like your challenge. The work can begin there and expand as the outcome becomes clearer.

Sense

Monitor global signals, map threats to your network, and turn early warning into a coordinated response.

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Decide faster. Act with confidence. Bristlecone Vantage is a suite of agentic industrial solutions spanning risk, logistics, planning, procurement, and order management. Each agent can work independently, or together through an orchestration layer that turns a signal in one part of the supply chain into coordinated action across the others.

Supply chain software has always helped people decide.

Vantage is designed to make defined decisions within clear guardrails, with human override and a complete audit trail. It works across the platforms you already own, adding the intelligence and action layer between visibility and execution.

Five agents.

One connected decision system. Sense can detect a disruption and trigger Plan to recalculate supply, Source to evaluate an alternative, and Flow to protect affected orders. Trace can update order health before a late shipment becomes a customer complaint. The handoffs happen through shared context and orchestration, not another meeting.

The suite is grounded in a Bristlecone data foundation shaped by 27 years of supply chain work, more than 100 documented AI use cases, over 500 carrier connections, and more than 200 global signal streams.

Customer ERP, planning, procurement, logistics, and execution data joins that foundation through prebuilt connectors and governed integration patterns.

From alert to action – without the swivel-chair handoff

Vantage is organized as a four-layer stack.

The data foundation connects supply chain history, customer systems, external intelligence, and live operational signals. The agent layer applies domain-specific reasoning. Orchestration coordinates actions across agents when one decision affects another. Governance provides the common controls, monitoring, and audit trail. Each layer can stand up to technical scrutiny, but the customer experience stays focused on the decision at hand.

Explainability at the point of decision – what triggered the action, what it optimizes for, and why it was recommended.
Human sovereignty – people can review, approve, or override agent decisions within the operating model you define.
Accountability – inputs, decisions, reasoning, overrides, and outcomes are recorded for review.
Continuous oversight – performance, drift, confidence, and override patterns stay visible after launch.

Start with one decision worth improving.

Vantage can begin with a single agent and a focused set of approved actions, then expand as the data, trust, and operating model mature. Meridian provides the route from readiness assessment through design, activation, and sustainment.

What should your supply chain be able to decide sooner?

Bring us the disruption, planning gap, sourcing decision, logistics exception, or order problem. We will help identify the right starting point and the foundations it needs.

What it does

Vantage turns fragmented supply chain signals into a connected path from visibility to action.

How the capability works

Sense external and internal signals in context
Trace orders, inventory, materials, and risk across the network
Plan scenarios and expose consequential trade-offs
Source with supplier, market, contract, and spend intelligence
Flow decisions into fulfillment and customer outcomes

Why it matters

A reusable decision-intelligence layer that strengthens the work already happening across teams and platforms.

The capability is configured around a real user, a defined job, trusted context, explicit authority, and measurable value. It can begin with one decision or workflow and expand as the operating model, evidence, and readiness mature.

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Questions, answered

What leaders ask about Vantage

Practical answers to the questions that often shape the first conversation.

What is Vantage?+

Vantage turns fragmented supply chain signals into a connected path from visibility to action.

Where does Vantage create the most value?+

Vantage is most useful when a defined business decision, workflow, or capability needs better context, clearer ownership, and a measurable path from insight to action. We identify the right starting point with the people who own the work.

Can it work with our existing platforms and data?+

Yes. Bristlecone’s portfolio is designed to work within and across the customer’s existing enterprise landscape, adding reusable intelligence, integration, agents, or accelerators where they create value.

How are governance and human accountability handled?+

The capability is designed around explicit purpose, trusted context, defined authority, appropriate human review, evidence, escalation, and measurable performance. The controls are proportional to the consequence of the decision or action.

How can an engagement begin?+

Work can begin with a focused business problem, assessment, prototype, or use case and expand as value, readiness, and the operating model become clearer.