5 LEVERAGING NEW TECH TO BRING SUPPLY CHAIN CLOSER TO HOME
by Suketu Gandhi
The location of low-cost labor largely shaped today’s global supply chains, but that has changed dramatically over the past five years. Technology is finally ready to replace human labor across a broad range of supply chain activities, which will give companies more opportunities to operate where they choose and reduce their dependence on Asia.
Savvy companies are busily exploring how they can employ a host of new technologies to make their end-to-end supply chain much more resilient yet still competitively cost-efficient. Those that succeed will take an artificial-intelligence-plus-human intelligence (AI + HI) approach. But first, they will revisit what customers ...
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