“ SUPPLY CHAINS ARE HEADED TOWARDS DIGITALLY NETWORKED ECOSYSTEMS WITH SHARED DATA IN THE CLOUD ”
GLENN STEINBERG GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN LEADER , EY
Typical of this spirit of collaboration is the EY teams collaboration with Nottingham-Spirk , a Cleveland , Ohio , innovation specialist that acts as its supply chain innovation hub . It has a center to demonstrate how its own technologies and EY assets work together to solve client business problems .
“ But I have to say , above all in the supply chain space , Proctor & Gamble ( P & G ), is a very important collaborator for us ,” Steinberg says . “ They are annually rated one of the top five supply chains in the industry by leading analysts . We formed a global arrangement with P & G , so while our competitors can tell you what great looks like , we can show you what great looks like .
“ We bring EY clients to P & G sites ; we walk the factory and talk to the machine operators . We can embed P & G leaders on our projects , and we have access to their IP [ intellectual property ]. It ’ s been wildly successful in helping EY clients see into the future and what the art of the possible really is .”
Where is this all headed ? Which leads Steinberg to the question he ’ s asked most often by clients : what is possible in the future , and where is this all headed ?
“ There ’ s all this disruption ,” he says . “ We ’ ve got geopolitics shaping supply chains for years to come . We ’ ve got industry 4.0 , and the interconnected society we ’ re living in . Consumer buying patterns are uneven and shifting , providing the opportunity for some companies to tap into analyzing real-time data to match supply and demand . And there is disruption from events ranging from weather to global semiconductor shortages . It is no wonder why CSCOs and the C-suite want to know how all these things will converge .”
EY teams research points to the rise of digital and fully autonomous supply chains . EY teams researchers surveyed 500 seniorlevel executives at organizations of more
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