TECHNOLOGY
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Dominic Regan is a Senior Director for Oracle ’ s logistics applications across EMEA . Working closely with its product development and strategy teams in his current role , he ’ s been involved with supply chain since the mid 1980s :
“ A lot of the technological solutions for supply chains were built for traditional operations , not the global , flexible supply we need today . Despite AI adoption increasing , many companies still lack an endto-end view and will often view the supply chain in silos , causing them to be slow to discover and react to issues and adapt to change .
“ To overcome this , businesses must introduce greater transparency from end to end . Doing so requires the implementation of technologies such
as AI . These can , for example , monitor demand at a very granular level across multiple tiers of the supply chain , enabling operational planning both within the company itself as well as with trading partners . Leveraging this intelligence enables the necessary operational agility to quickly re-prioritise inventory in order to meet shifting customer demand or adjust to external impacts .
“ Moving forward , we can expect the expansion of both AI as well as machine learning in the supply chain . This can enable manufacturing and supply chain managers to track and manage day-to-day production , while leading to data-driven operations that will significantly improve production yield , product quality , lead times , equipment , and labour efficiencies .”
JULY 2020