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Automate your supply chain

Automate your supply chain

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Automate your supply chain

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- Have you heard the saying from business professor Warren Bennis about the future of manufacturing? The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog, and the dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. In other side, supply chain managers need to embrace automation in order to compete effectively. Let me share my perspective on evaluating new supply chain technologies. Running a supply chain involves lots of decisions and actions. For example, we make decisions about where to purchase raw materials, and we take actions that move products from one place to another. I break decisions and actions into tasks and then use a three-step approach to look for ways to do things better. First, I try to eliminate the task. Supply chains have a tendency to accumulate unnecessary tasks that don't provide value to the end customer. Eliminating a task altogether can often allow you to reduce costs, increase your supply…

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