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Advanced analytics helps to provide insights into supply chain operations , enabling organizations to identify inefficiencies and make improvements

Top companies : IBM , Accenture , Oracle , SAP , Teradata , Capgemini , Microsoft , Tableau , Kinaxis , Logility , Coupa

Big data is high-volume and / or high-variety information that enables enhanced insight , decision making and process automation . Data analytics is the science of analysing raw data in order to make conclusions about that information . Many of the techniques and processes of data analytics have been automated into mechanical processes and algorithms that work over raw data for human consumption . Until relatively recently , the lack of capabilities around manageable data hindered better informed value-based decision making and proactive risk management efforts . But Organisations today have a host of new technologies to help with procurement , supply chain risk management , and S & OP .

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RPA can automate manual and repetitive tasks , freeing up employees to focus on more strategic tasks

Top companies : UiPath , Automation Anywhere , IBM RPA , Blue Prism , Microsoft

Robotics is revolutionising the supply chain and delivering huge value . It improves speed and accuracy of operations , particularly in warehousing and manufacturing . Robots also increase worker productivity , reduce error rate , cut pick- , sort- , and storing-times , and increase access to difficult or dangerous locations . And with the current labour problems robots are shaping up as the lastmile workers of the future .

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