Strategies to Build Supply Chain Planning Foundations
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SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. Since the top business drivers focus on resiliency and agility, strategies that SAPinsiders are formulating to address business drivers also revolve around resiliency and agility. This SAPinsider article covers the top drivers that were highlighted by respondents.
SAPinsiders are formulating or implementing strategies to address their business drivers. The top strategies they have identified for building robust supply chain planning capabilities are shown in figure 1. Building end-to-end visibility (67%), Developing a single source of truth for the end-to-end supply chain (39%), and leveraging real-time insights (39%), all pertain to the resiliency and agility and support associated business drivers. The article explores the top strategies SAPinsiders have highlighted as priorities for building robust supply chain planning capabilities.