Published: 10 January 2024
Disruptions and uncertainties require a willingness to act courageously and strategically enhance resilience over ad hoc responses. Supply chain technology leaders must ensure calculated risk and reliable investments to enable value creation within their digital transformation initiative.
Advancements in technology provide supply chain technology leaders and other executives an opportunity to support new business models, augment and automate decision making and foster ecosystem collaboration.
Delivering the full potential of supply chain technology investments’ past and future requires investments in “control and protect.”
Additional opportunities for competitive differentiation arise from the theme of “humans and machines.”
Different types of AI — consolidated within the broader theme of composite AI — offer new opportunities and drive several trends, such as in robotics or decision intelligence.
Supply chain technology leaders and other executives planning their mid and long-term plans for supply chain
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Christian Titze, Dwight Klappich, Brian Schultz, Kevin Lawrence, Leonard Ammerer, Pierfrancesco Manenti, Simon Jacobson, Federica Stufano, Dana Stiffler
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