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Embracing the Future: How Manufacturing 4.0 is Transforming Industry

Jaggaer

Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic forum introduced the phrase to a global audience in 2016 when Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution was adopted as the theme for the WEF annual meeting at Davos. This reduces latency, enhances real-time decision-making, and improves operational efficiency.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP fully integrates strategy with rolling forecasts , with a process for enterprise resource reallocation and with a corporate communication plan (Van Hove, 2016). A problem arises in IBP meetings when participants are distracted by very near-term planning issues, leaving insufficient time for longer term discussion and decisions.