Karen Betancourt, former vice president of enterprise logistics with Cardinal Health, summarizes takeaways from the Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit, presented by SupplyChainBrain and CSCMP.
Direct procurement needs to be involved in all of a company's business strategy decisions from the very beginning, says Georg Roesch, vice president of direct procurement strategy at Jaggaer.
Achieving an intelligent, composable supply chain is all about embracing heterogeneity in technology and data sources, says Rohit Tripathi, principal chief technology officer at Grid Dynamics.
The use of data for demand sensing and shaping, already well-advanced in the B2C world, is now being adopted in B2B as well, says Sujit Singh, chief operating officer of Arkieva.
The "final mile" benefits from the collaboration of artificial intelligence and machine learning and optimized data, says Mathew Witte, senior vice president at Ortec.
Eric Rempel, chief innovation officer at Redwood Logistics, says the modern fourth-party logistics provider offers a finely honed logistics platform as a service.