Global shortages, increasing customer demand, mass customization, and globalization are challenges that are getting even harder for manufacturers to solve. These challenges are only worsened by many manufacturers’ reliance on the status quo (the idea that manual processes, bad data, shortages, excess, and more that come with the territory of manufacturing, have been “working well enough”).
The manual processes built 20-plus years ago worked effectively then, but they can no longer keep up with a growing economy that continues to be plagued by COVID-19 uncertainties and evolving market fluctuations.
