How Prewave is helping to secure deep supply chains worldwide with AI on Google Cloud
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- Europe
- America
Country
- European Union
- United States
Product
- Prewave Supply Chain Risk Intelligence Platform
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Build
- Artifact Registry
Tech Stack
- Google Cloud
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Cloud SQL
- Compute Engine
- Cloud Armor
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Productivity Improvements
- Revenue Growth
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
- Networks & Connectivity - Software-Defined Networking
Applicable Industries
- Software
- Professional Service
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Predictive Maintenance
- Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Prewave is a company driven by the mission to help businesses make their entire supply chains more resilient, transparent, and sustainable. The company offers an end-to-end platform that monitors and predicts a wide range of supply chain risks using AI. Prewave's platform is built on Google Cloud, providing reliability, availability, and security while allowing the company to focus on product development and its mission. The platform helps clients identify and mitigate risks, making supply chains more resilient and sustainable. Prewave's clients include businesses with hundreds or thousands of suppliers, and the platform helps them focus on those with the highest risk. The company has grown significantly since its inception, expanding its client base and team while achieving substantial revenue growth.
The Challenge
Prewave faced the challenge of making supply chains more resilient and sustainable by identifying and mitigating risks. The company needed a robust technology foundation to handle vast volumes of data and extract meaningful insights from publicly available information. Additionally, Prewave aimed to map clients' supply chains from immediate and sub-tier suppliers down to raw materials' providers, which is a requirement of new regulations such as the European corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD). The challenge was to provide this level of granularity and transparency to clients who usually have hundreds or thousands of suppliers.
The Solution
Prewave built its supply chain risk intelligence platform on Google Cloud to provide a reliable, secure, and scalable technology foundation. The platform uses AI to scan publicly available information in over 120 languages, identifying early signals of risk events for clients. Clients can take actions on the platform to mitigate risks, such as filing incident reviews or arranging on-site audits. Prewave's platform maps clients' supply chains from immediate and sub-tier suppliers down to raw materials' providers, providing the granularity and transparency required by new regulations. The platform's Tier-N Monitoring capability flags potential risks, allowing suppliers to act and raise their standards. Prewave's engineering teams rely on scalable technology such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to support their SaaS, and they use Cloud Build and Artifact Registry for experimentation, building, and deployment. Cloud Armor acts as a firewall, protecting against denial of service and web attacks. The application development and data science teams use Cloud SQL as a database, and Compute Engine hosts AI implementations.
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