About DSN Innovations


What We Do

DSN Innovations is a non-profit organization that provides the services and infrastructure to orchestrate dynamic supplier networks. The organizations tools, protocols and expertise facilitate the rapid assembly and coordination of these networks, delivering bottom line benefits to all participants.

Trust is a key issue for DSN Innovations because our services and infrastructure are available to both competing and cooperating companies. To ensure participants that their confidential information remains private, DSN Innovations orchestrates these virtual supplier networks as a neutral, trusted third party.


Value of Our Work

There are a number of benefits to prime manufacturers and government organizations leveraging these virtual supplier networks..
  • Reduced costs to create and manage supplier networks
  • Faster customer response due to greater agility
  • Greater control over cost, quality and delivery
  • Increased competitive advantage

Small- to medium-sized manufacturers also benefit by participating.
  • Access to previously unavailable opportunities
  • Improve capacity utilization while increasing margins
  • Increased competitive advantage
  • Ability to participate without buying costly software

How We Do It

DSN Innovations has been working extensively with major universities and government agencies to tackle key supplier network challenges. The result is an infrastructure of tools and protocols that facilitate sourcing, engineering, planning and managing disparate participants within the supplier network, regardless of their software capabilities.

2008 NCM Forum


2008 NCM Forum Recap

In October, attendees joined in four working sessions and a Q&A panel discussion to help bridge the gap between the NCM framework envisioned in 2007 and the implementation of NCM nationally. Look for the white paper to be released in November.

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Network Centric Manufacturing Delivers First Quantifiable Results
One of the earliest tests of Network Centric Manufacturing (NCM) is beginning to deliver quantifiable cost and time savings for the U.S. army.

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DSN Innovations—bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. through innovation
Dennis Thompson wants to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and he has a plan to do it, starting with Pittsburgh.

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