Decision-makers report blind spots in supply chain
New research from AMR Research says that decision-makers report blind spots in their supply chains that add risk to their business. There’s a write-up here at Manufacturing Business Technology. Mark Hillman of AMR said “Today’s supply chains are global, running lean, and highly interconnected. Failure at one node in the supply chain, whether it’s a supplier in China or the corner grocery store, can leave a company highly exposed. Said differently, in event of failure, a supply network is only as strong as its weakest link.”
This is consistent with our recently announced RapidResponse Glass Pipeline capability. However, a big difference between our approach and the enterprise data warehouse promoted in the article is the rich analytics and toolset available to users to actually drive a proactive response to change.
Warehouse/BI solutions are focused on data presentation and lack the domain expertise-specific tools users need to actually solve problems. Instead, they believe that visibility alone is sufficient. Visibility is required, but insufficient to address the complex problems that exist in today’s global supply chains.
