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Technology Trends in Procurement

Una

This number is expected to swell to over 25 billion connected devices by 2030. Procurement stands to gain a treasure-trove of data as IoT continues to proliferate across manufacturing, supply chains , and warehouses, ultimately enabling real-time inventory tracking, enhanced demand planning, and improved predictive analytics.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.