SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES

of companies report their supply chains are affected by new tariffs

The analytics ahead: the new baseline For each of the three perspectives explored – risk intelligence, logistics execution and enabling technology – the transformation is the same. Supply chain analytics is no longer a project with an end date, but an ongoing operational capability that connects foresight with data and decisions in real time. For leading organisations, it’ s moved on from“ should we investigate analytics?”, and it is now a conversation about how quickly capabilities can be matured and the subsequent risks associated with not utilising its full capabilities. The blind spots Moody’ s identifies, the digital thread DHL is building and the process-level data that Trimble captures are all part of the same conversations. Supply chain analytics as it stands today is not a differentiator but a necessity. The difference between the companies treating it as such and those still catching up is measured not in technology, but time. supplychaindigital. com 77