As shippers seek to optimize supply chain operations, technology allows for innovation to meet that need. This has prompted a recent rise in shipment visibility providers. The most efficient solution, however, is digital load matching which integrates supply chain technologies—including visibility—with machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Move aside, enterprise resource planning. It's the age of eco-system resource planning (ERP) 4.0. Rich Sherman, senior fellow at the Supply Chain Centre of Excellence with Tata Consultancy Services, explains.
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Companies that place their entire focus on new supply-chain technologies are in danger of losing sight of their larger business goals, warns Roger Thomas, industry principal with SAS Institute.
The glass company's plans for a digital supply-chain makeover changed radically when a new customer presented two major challenges: extremely large order volume and nonstandard labeling requirements.
