A mere 4% of companies have realised all the benefits
they expected from their current supply chain and manufacturing
IT system, according to our research
article.
Undeterred, companies are ploughing on with investments in
this area, persuaded that an agile and efficient supply chain
is about as important a business feature as you can get.
In the competition for budget, new technology options like
radio frequency identification (RFID) systems frequently win,
and we look at different ways companies can exploit RFID in
the following: click here or click
here.
The ability to visualise and manage the whole supply chain,
rather than small slices, is also clearly important, and visualisation
technology is described in this article.
Other articles from Accenture
and Oliver Wight Europe address
the business issues of low-cost country sourcing and strategic
supply chain planning.
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Supply
Chain & Manufacturing Systems