现在Supply Chain的挑战：Faster, more flexible, more granular, and more efficient
Rising Customer Expectations:
- Real Time Tracking
- Precise Inventory Management
- Wide range of product availability
- High availability, reliable lead times, transparency
Fast Fulfillment and Large Volume of Orders
- Fast-paced timeline of ordering (overnight shipping for holiday)
- Quick growth of parcel and less-than-truckload shipment
Uniqueness and Large Variation of Order
- Special requirement of configuration, urgency and delivery locations
- Ad hoc and real time planning (last minute change, change typo, etc.)
Leader and Management Team requires 360 degree visibility
- Leaders orchestrate demand and supply, information from different channels
- End-to-End transparency throughout the supply chain
Accelerating Scale, Scope and Depth of Data
- Utilize such immense data sets to drive contextual intelligence
- Enable more complex supplier networks that focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration instead of just completing transactions is critical
