The analysts at IDC Manufacturing Insights recommend that we all become familiar with the following terms: ôDemand awareö, ôSupply visibleö and ôInnovation networkedö.
The analysts at IDC Manufacturing Insights recommend that we all become familiar with the following terms: “Demand aware”, “Supply visible” and “Innovation networked”.
Those concepts will become the three lobes at the center of the next-generation supply chain as technology and modern mobile tools (including big data) shape the way goods are manufactured and flow.
Key points from this 12-page whitepaper – which features a number of detailed graphs – include:
- The rising use of mobility tools in the supply chain
- Dynamic networks will take over from point-to-point relationships
- The increasing importance of customer engagement
- The changing role of inter and intra-company collaboration
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