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How Digitalisation Can Build A Resilient Supply Chain
The pandemic taught us how fragile the system is and how quickly our way of life can come tumbling down.
Businesses conduct risk assessments to prepare for all eventualities and carry on despite uncontrollable external events. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail, after all.
However, even with risk assessments, most businesses were unprepared for the coronavirus crisis fallout. We had to change how we operated overnight as the world closed off to stop the virus’s spread.
The pandemic caused significant disruption in the supply chains of all industries, big or small. Everyone had to adapt to survive.
Despite the difficulties, the pandemic provides an excellent opportunity for positive changes that ensure survival in the future.
Without the internet and the digital age, getting through the pandemic would have been impossible for businesses. Therefore, it is essential to consider digitalization to drive forward operations for greater security in the future.
What is Digitalisation?
Digitalisation is the transparent conversion of all communications to electronic messaging.
It facilitates automation, enhances data quality, and enables advanced technologies like smarter software to improve your business.
Neglecting it risks being left behind in a world that is rapidly embracing it. Digitalising the supply chain offers complete visibility, immediate real-time responses to supply and demand signals, and the ability to anticipate and adapt to future disruptions.
The Benefits of Supply Chain Digitalisation
When everything is interconnected across the supply chain, you’ll start to reap all sorts of wonderful benefits for your brand, everything from reducing information lag to eliminating miscommunication.
You’ll find your wait times reduced significantly, with orders executed far quicker than before, you’ll be able to predict future requirements for your company thanks to more in-depth data collection and analysis, you’ll be able to protect your bottom line by eliminating any glitches in the supply chain that see you order too much stock, or not enough… the list goes on and on!
What this also does is put the customer at the heart of your business operations, ensuring that they’re nothing but happy with your goods and services, and never left dissatisfied by an interaction with you.
How to go Digital
The very first step to take is to gain a solid understanding of the current situation of your supply chain, assessing the risks that every supplier brings so you can come up with solutions for preventing potential complications. Once you’re armed with this information, you can then take steps to implement preventative frameworks.
What you will need to make sure you have, however, is the right people on board – so make sure you’ve brought in the very best digital talent you can find, so you know you have the skills and expertise on hand to really make your digitalisation strategy a roaring success.
Do you think you need the help of PLM consulting services at the moment? Get in touch with the Bombyx team to see what we can achieve together.