how is Oracle reacting to them ?
“ The primary driver of what I ’ m seeing customers want to achieve is not necessarily always related to cost or productivity , but agility ,” he reveals . “ Companies don ’ t want to find their ability to react to the market is constrained by their supply chains or by the solutions that support them . They understand how to balance being large and efficient , but can also see the dynamics in the market are changing due to customer requirements and the influence of new entrants to that market , so what they ’ re looking at is the need to disrupt with a flexible and agile supply chain to prepare for the unknown nature of how their businesses will transform over the next 18 , 24 or 36 months . From a customer perspective , that flexibility can be met with new developments like IoT and 3D printing offering the chance to assemble solutions that are future proofed .”
Regan is seeing more focus on 3D printing with Oracle customers who produce medical devices , or in construction where companies provide manufacturing and production facilities . “ The advent of 3D printing will give them a lot more flexibility in terms of the production lines they can provide and how they will be used for delivering products to the end customer ,” he says . “ That will be part of the transition from how things used to be – traditionally you ’ d set up a supply chain and a manufacturing line and it ’ s all about producing volumes and keeping on
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