The past five years have been a difficult period for the supply chain. While the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to recede, new disruptions have emerged in the form of the military conflict in Ukraine, chronic global inflation, and recurring logistics issues like the Suez Canal blockage or the destruction of the Baltimore bridge.
While the persistent disruptions to supply chain organizations are not new, what’s more intriguing are the obstacles that hinder their capacity to respond effectively to these disruptions. They are seeking improved tools and application approaches to become more agile and responsive.
In a recent IDC’s Worldwide Supply Chain Survey, we see significant “drag” from legacy or poorly integrated systems when organizations are asked about what prevents them from responding more effectively to disruption. In Figure 1, we have highlighted three industry segments, but the sentiments depicted there also hold for most other industries surveyed.
We will leave supply chain partner constraints for another discussion, instead focusing on the implications of older or poorly integrated systems that either operate without broader context or create data silos that limit an organization’s ability to gain necessary end-to-end visibility and take timely decisions/actions to improve its business outcomes.
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