TECHNOLOGY
38 across the network in almost real time . To achieve this , Merry explains that “ adopting cloud-based , digitally enabled solutions can be the foundation for end-to-end visibility .”
She adds that “ manufacturers must be able to work with a wide variety of systems such as ERP , WMS , supply planning , transportation management and DMS to actually achieve end to end visibility . This takes me back to elements of industry 4.0 . End-to-end visibility really encompasses the trends that we ’ re seeing and that we ’ re focused on . So , for manufacturing , the key components are connectivity , IoT , machine learning and the cloud to rapidly innovate the effectiveness of global manufacturing . All of the business systems we ’ ve discussed must support a diverse range of IoT technology . Once that data is harnessed into the cloud , it creates visibility and can be used in advanced or even predictive analytics to drive process optimisation , create and act on alerts and predict when , or even before an issue occurs .”
JUNE 2020