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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The challenges continue: one 2023 survey found 44% of companies had to make changes in the past year due to issues with their supply chain footprint, and 49% said supply chain disruptions had caused planning problems. Automation Automation can streamline supply chain operations, from order fulfillment to inventory tracking.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. Planning functions with a majority of decisions being automated or autonomous are sales and operations execution (S&OE) (57%), order fulfillment/available to promise (56%), production planning (53%) and production scheduling (53%).