Supply Chain Digital Magazine July 2023 | Page 139

“ Cleaning data involves a considerable amount of hard work yet people expect perfection on day one ”

GREGOR STÜHLER , CEO AND CO-FOUNDER ,
SCOUTBEE
decisions , which drive the best outcomes for their business . It is highly flexible and new data points can be easily added as it becomes available . It ’ s not a one-off project , but a software solution that is constantly acquiring data .
Can businesses have data visibility without technology ? Pre-digital , organisations would typically take one of two approaches : they would either tap into tech hubs in India , or hire interns to mine the data and create insights out of it . Neither approach is scalable or sustainable ; the tech hubs and the interns are still both dealing with dirty data . They still have to aggregate , transform and accurately represent the data in order to run meaningful analytics .
The data pipeline issue is still there and prevents true visibility . With those approaches , it ’ s impossible to draw deep conclusions in a short amount of time , which is detrimental in a risk scenario . me .”
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