Plan to Be Disrupted
Content was pulled from MHI Solutions Magazine Q3.2018
For the fifth consecutive year, MHI and the Deloitte Consulting LLP research team—led by Scott Sopher, principal and leader of the Global Supply Chain Practice—queried more than 1,100 manufacturing and supply chain leaders to evaluate the influence a range of trends and next generation (NextGen) technologies have had. Executives from a variety of industries weighed in on their supply chain business impact, as well as cybersecurity concerns and workforce challenges.
The resulting 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report, “Overcoming Barriers to NextGen Supply Chain Adoption,” confirmed the trends identified in the previous reports, says Sopher: “The next generation, digital, on-demand and always-on supply network is here. It’s real. It’s happening. And lots of companies have embraced it.”
The report was released in a keynote panel discussion at MODEX 2018. In it, respondents acknowledged that today’s supply chains do much more than just physically move products and materials from one location to another. Today’s digital, interconnected world demands that supply chains also serve as a connected, coordinated information ecosystem that delivers maximum flexibility, visibility and transparency—regardless of the manpower available.
