From the course: Digital Transformation in Supply Chains

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Combine technologies into supply chain solutions

Combine technologies into supply chain solutions

From the course: Digital Transformation in Supply Chains

Combine technologies into supply chain solutions

- One of the questions supply chain folks ask all the time is - where's my stuff? With the disruptions that we've faced in the past few years, a lot of companies are trying to improve the track and trace processes for their inbound components and for their outbound products. In other words, they want to end-to-end visibility but there just isn't a one size fits all solution to that problem. Instead, we need to choose the right combination of technologies and then integrate them together into a solution. In my experience, figuring out the right combination of technologies is one of the hardest things for companies to do. So, here are three suggestions that can help us determine which technologies we need to implement and how to make them work well together. The first is to benchmark against other companies in our industry. In addition to giving us new ideas, this approach is a useful way to learn from other company's…

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