LOGISTICS
“ The beauty of small tech companies is you can talk on a Friday afternoon and they ’ ll have a proof of concept on a Tuesday morning ”
DAVID WARRICK GENERAL MANAGER , MICROSOFT GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Over the past seven years Microsoft has been undergoing a digital transformation .
“ It all started with an awareness statement , not a mission statement ,” Microsoft global supply chain GM David Warrick told Procurement & Supply Chain Live in September 2021 . That statement was : that the supply chains of the future will have the interdependency , interconnectedness and the intelligence to predict disruption before it occurs . Which is pretty much the silver bullet of global logistics .
Logistics helped by ‘ beautiful ecosystem ’ of solutions Warrick maintains that this goal is not as ambitious as may first appear , thanks to the “ beautiful ecosystem of bespoke solutions that target key problems within the supply chain .”
He added : “ We ' ve partnered with some incredibly smart companies with wonderful solutions , and have evolved our supply chain at an incredible rate . It ’ s all about visibility and automation .”
76 February 2022