Given everything I’ve written about here, you won’t be surprised that I was caught by the Supply & Demand Chain Executive article entitled “The Move to ‘Intelligent’ Supply Chain Decisions.” The article features insights from Bob Parker, the vice president of research who leads Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company. I’ve had the opportunity to talk to Bob a couple of times and came away with the feeling that “he get’s it” (in my humble opinion).

According to the article, “the top prediction for the year was that that companies will need to adopt solutions — or better use the solutions they already have — to help them to make faster, better decisions.” Bob describes a nested model whereby strategic decision making leads to improved tactical decision making which leads to better operational decision making.

If you read this blog you know that we focus on improving decision making, particularly as it pertains to dealing with the rash of unexpected events that occur daily in today’s manufacturing environment. What we’ve also seen is that our solution tends to get pulled into a wide variety of situations where the need for enhanced visibility and better decision making is critical. This can be new product introductions, sales and operations planning, risk management, etc.

It’s great to see an industry thought leader calling out this important market need.

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