What will the supply chain of the future look like? SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore offers 10 predictions for the Supply Chain 2015

Extract from Supply Chain 2015:

• We see substantial drops in overall inventory levels: Inventory levels have remained flat for many years now. But the lessons of this recession – that maybe we can get by with less combined with supply chain simplification programs and new technology – really will drive step change drops in inventory levels by 2015.
• Web-based supply chain software comes to dominate the landscape: I haven’t completely been on this bandwagon until recently, but by 2015, this is how it is going to be – which has many major implications. More confident of this than about any other prediction on the list. Once this becomes the lead approach for almost all vendors, the shift will happen rapidly.
• Visibility to everything, all the time: The technology is really here now to have it, and despite RFID’s current lack of direction, it will become very commonplace by 2015. Understanding what to do with this information is the real challenge.

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