FOREWORD Smart data at heart of healthy supply chains
The Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE : The Risk & Resilience Conference heard one word more than any other : ‘ data ’. But it ’ s how business use it that counts .
“ Data is like medicine - businesses must approach it with knowledge , guidance and purpose to find the right solution to the right problems at the right time ”
A stellar line-up of speakers graced Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE , the hybrid event that we staged in London ’ s iconic Tobacco Dock at the end of April .
The theme of the show was ‘ Risk & Resilience ’, and a rapt audience – both in person and online , viewing remotely – listened as supply chain and procurement leaders offered telling insights on how organisations can navigate uncertainty , disruption and spiralling inflation .
We heard from : Jonathan Colehower , CEO of digital transformation specialist , UST ; Frank Soudan , Head of Digital Supply Chain at SAP ; and the incomparable Sheri Hinish , Global Sustainability lead at IBM .
For these and many other speakers , one topic reigned supreme : data and its importance to resilient supply chains . But just as critical - more , in fact - the majority of them stressed how data without strategy , discernment and an adequately skilled workforce is meaningless .
In short , data is like a cornucopia of medicines , and businesses need to approach it with knowledge , guidance and purpose to apply the right solution to the right problems at the right time .
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