Business 4.0: Integrating Planning and Execution

摘要

Emerging from the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, companies are embracing "Business 4.0" digital technologies to support the move toward becoming "purpose-driven resilient enterprises." The notion of corporate social responsibility is broadening to include the circular economy and ethics. To become resilient, supply-chain leaders must adopt the entire suite of digital technologies for advanced planning and optimization, eventually leading to the integration of planning with execution, and the resulting ability to better respond to variance and disruption. The pandemic posed new challenges that are driving supply-chain transformation: 1. Demand and sales driven by e-commerce grew from around 8% of retail sales to 30%. Other industries experienced similarly large swings across channels.