Operational expectations for supply chains continue to rise, where optimal efficiency, swift speed, rigorous cost control and an elevated customer experience have become table stakes. In addition to operational excellence, CEOs are looking to their supply chains to address a new challenge: driving profitable growth for the enterprise.
Supply Chain leaders face increasing expectations around their supply chain's sustainability performance from regulators and other stakeholders, while cost savings and business growth remain key priorities.
Supply Chain Planning teams are operating in a world where disruptions are happening more frequently and they have become predictably unpredictable, and bigger in impact.
The last two years of supply chain disruptions, including the pandemic, the Suez Canal clog, the current Gridlock, and other events, have inadvertently shifted focus away from supply chain digital transformation as companies have scrambled to remediate these challenges.
A combination of intensifying customer demands and massively disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers to embrace innovation at an unprecedented pace.
With the shift to cloud, a key driver of IT spending, enterprise software will continue to exhibit strong growth, with worldwide software spending projected to grow 8.5 percent in 2019.
Staff shortages have escalated in the last three months to become the top emerging risk organizations face globally, according to Gartner’s latest risks survey.
The number of enterprises implementing artificial intelligence grew 270 percent in the past four years and tripled in the past year, according to the Gartner Inc.
Gartner’s annual ranking recognizes organizations across the healthcare value chain that demonstrate leadership in improving human life at sustainable costs.