– Shawn Lane , Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing , E2open

decision-making , ultimately helping you to gain more of their business . He adds : “ Machine learning helps take most of the bias out of decision making by presenting information based on factual data trends ”, but warns that artificial intelligence is not itself bias free as it was created by humans whose judgement and logic are still important parts of data processing . The overall goal should be to improve decision making with the real-time harvesting of valuable data through machine learning to allowing companies to make instant changes based on harvesting real insight from big data to enable actionable supply chain visibility . Can a business see into its supply chain and predict what ’ s going to happen tomorrow , next month or next year ? Harnessing this vision can help companies predict where goods are going to be , compress cycle times

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