Author: Connected World
Humans, not technologies are the missing link for manufacturing and supply-chain success. For the manufacturing and supply chain sectors, the recent past has been formative—and pre-COVID, this “formative recent past” would have referred to the disruptive shift toward Industry 4.0 technologies, including the IoT (Internet of Things). However, considering the pandemic, the formative recent past must now include all the strife supply chains have faced because of the fallout from COVID-19. Technology is a part of the picture, but it’s far from the whole picture. Supply chain executives have long pursued more visibility within and control over supply chains. What…
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