Content Supply Chain

What is Content Supply Chain?

In the digital era, where content is king, having a robust Content Supply Chain is paramount. It's the backbone that ensures your product information flows seamlessly from creation to distribution, captivating customers at every touchpoint.

Every company has a content supply chain, whether they use this exact terminology or not. To break it down simply, a content supply chain is the end-to-end process enterprises use to plan, create, manage, deploy, and measure the performance of marketing content.

Challenges to Content Supply Chain Optimization

Companies face a myriad of challenges in optimizing their Content Supply Chain amidst the ever-expanding landscape of channels, formats, engagement models, and markets. With each new channel and format comes the complexity of tailoring content to suit diverse audience preferences and behaviors. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of engagement models necessitates agility in content creation and distribution strategies. Expanding into new markets adds another layer of complexity, requiring localization and cultural adaptation to resonate with diverse audiences.

Channel activation used to be an end point, but now it’s increasingly likely content will be a conversation with itself, and endlessly recontextualized and republished.

Improving Your Content Supply Chain

Weak points in the Content Supply Chain can hamper customer experience and hinder business growth. They may manifest as inconsistent product information across channels, delays in updating content, or challenges in scaling content production to meet demand.

Your path to an effective and successful content supply chain begins with recognizing where your content ecosystem stands now, targeting specific improvements, and charting the path forward from pain to promise.

The Benefits of a Strong Content Supply Chain

The benefits of formalizing, scaling, and optimizing your content supply chain for omni-channel content planning, atomized production, delivery and recontextualization have never been clearer:

Create higher quality content assets more efficiently with less spend, and deploy them across channels, geographies, and devices.
Leverage next generation content production technologies in an integrated ecosystem.
Simplify operations and processes to better manage multiple content production streams.
Use a single source of content truth to aid discovery, reuse and recontextualization.
Bring content siloes such as social influence marketing into an agile content production process.
Drive customer engagement with seamlessly connected assets, delivering consistent communication across multiple channels.
Automatically draw multi-channel performance insights to optimize content ideation, commissioning, and creation.

VML + Adobe

VML has unrivalled strength in providing Adobe Experience Cloud expertise:

We were named Adobe Experience Cloud Solution Partner of the Year for four consecutive years
We hold the highest possible accreditation as an Adobe Platinum Partner
We house 7,000 technology experts, across 71 technology centers, in 37 countries around the world
We work with clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, Ford, EY, Sherwin Williams, KFC and Colgate Palmolive

We don’t just implement the technology, we help organizations to get the most out of it, transforming their processes and upskilling their people along the way. When you partner with VML and Adobe, your Content Supply Chain can become a strategic asset that drives higher conversion rates, increases customer satisfaction, and helps sustain growth.