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Notes from the Chief Innovation Officer
As I write this, there has never been a more critical and exciting time to be at the intersection of supply chain and technology. For decades now, I’ve had the privilege of helping some of the world’s leading corporations redefine their visibility, efficiency, resilience, sustainability and profit potential through powerful, flexible connections. It’s been quite a journey for both myself and Elemica’s clients. But it’s time to buckle in, because things are about to speed up in an exponential way. Over the next five years, supply chain innovation will accelerate at a tremendous pace—demanding more and more connectivity between trading partners in practically every industry vertical. Why? Here are a few reasons:
I think, as an industry, we’re coming into one of those periods in which multi-disciplinary advances will all coalesce to bring about a transformative change that wasn’t previously possible or economical. And as supply chain stakeholders you’ll get a front row seat. So how can you keep your organization from falling behind in this upcoming period of accelerated innovation?
The answer is by taking action. Do something or your company will fall behind. Take the next step, even if that step is just a plan. Take it one connection at a time. Quantify wins. Make decisions based on solid strategy and hard data. Experiment. You don’t have to rebuild processes, just refine them. Embrace this new world of interconnectivity. Because periods of rapid acceleration mean periods of rapid differentiation, and you don’t want to be left behind.
Da Vinci said “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” As complex as they may seem from the outside, and as big as impact as they have, so many Elemica innovations purse this very principle. Case in point, the humble API. This technology is more than 20 years old. Yet deployed at scale it can radically redefine supply chain efficiency for the most complex, high impact supply chains. Here are just a few ways in which our innovations have simplified supply chains worldwide:
From enabling data agnosticism to connecting all supply chain functions from order-to-cash to logistics, scale and simplicity is what puts the power in Elemica’s Powerful Connections. So whatever sort of connectivity you’re considering, ask yourself: “How can I make this simple?”
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