Product Feature
Z2 Supply Chain Watch plots every disruption on a live world map, so you see the location, size, and spread of an event at a glance.
Overview
Event Monitoring and Mapping is the visualization layer of Z2 Supply Chain Watch. Instead of a feed of text alerts, it shows each disruption on a global map sized by its real footprint, so you see which regions are affected and how far an event has spread. Z2 tracks dozens of disruption types worldwide and ties each one back to the specific parts, sites, and alternative suppliers in your supply chain, so the map shows your own exposure, not just the weather.
Z2 Supply Chain Watch monitors dozens of disruption types worldwide: natural disasters, geopolitical conflict, trade restrictions, and component shortages. Every event is placed on a world map at the scale of its actual impact, so location, size, and spread read instantly instead of as a line in a notification list. The map separates active developments from closed events and refreshes continuously. Because Z2's research teams gather news from primary sources in multiple countries and languages around the clock, it captures developments that English-only services routinely miss.
A point on the map is only useful if it connects to your supply chain. Every event is mapped against your MPNs and site locations, so clicking a disruption surfaces the affected parts, impacted sites, and alternative suppliers you could turn to. Instead of reading that a typhoon hit a region and wondering whether it matters, your team sees exactly which of your parts are produced there and can move straight to a mitigation step, like contacting the manufacturer for the affected MPNs.
When an event unfolds in an area that does not match a tidy border, draw a polygon on the map around any region of interest. Supply Chain Watch then surfaces every site that falls inside that zone and the parts produced there, so you can scope exposure to a conflict area, flood zone, or coastline in a storm's path. Because Z2 maps your BOMs down to sub-tier locations, a polygon search reaches the tier 2 and tier 3 sites most tools cannot see, not just your direct suppliers.
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Event Monitoring & Mapping is one capability inside Z2 Supply Chain Watch, real-time monitoring of disruptive events mapped to your parts and manufacturing sites, so you act before a disruption reaches your line.
Common Questions
Z2 tracks dozens of disruption types worldwide, including natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, trade restrictions, and component shortages. Research teams gather this from primary sources in many countries and languages, so the map reflects developments English-only services often miss.
Supply Chain Watch maps each event against your MPNs and site locations. Clicking a disruption surfaces the affected parts, impacted sites, and alternative suppliers, so you see your actual exposure and can move straight to mitigation.
Draw a polygon around any region and Supply Chain Watch surfaces every site that falls inside it. Because Z2 maps BOMs down to sub-tier locations, this reaches the tier 2 and tier 3 sites in the zone, not only your direct suppliers.
