Topic - Agile Lean Supply Chain - Laying Your Data Foundation for Intelligent Supply Insights

Speaker: William Crane, Founder & CEO

The visibility, velocity, and volume needed in supply chain to keep pace with our ever-dynamic world can be daunting. To complicate matters, our data that fuels our daily supply decisions is also changing and growing exponentially.

Today, leaders must face the harsh reality that we must hire more people or get more productive if we are to succeed in the days ahead.

Over the past year, we have met with over 500 professionals, asking them a wide range of questions about their day-to-day tasks. We have summarized our conversations into a list of specific offline manual processes that you can accelerate with technology to get more flow in your day. Further, we have developed a framework, process, and tools to accelerate your journey.

The macro trend is clear, forward thinking supply chain leaders across industries are striving to digitize their data to gain productivity and power insights. In this webinar, we will outline this critical, but often overlooked step in a “Supply Chain Digitization Journey” and provide actions that will reduce your cost, time, and risk.

You'll Learn:

• Why digitizing offline supply chain data is key to future predictive analytics supply success and where to start your Supply Chain Digitization Journey
• How to go from overwhelming mountains of offline part data in paper, PDF, and spreadsheets into a data lake in less time and headaches
• What specific Industry 4.0 framework, process and tools are helpful to enable supply chain success inside and outside the organizations four walls
• Where are the practical processes to start your journey that will generate quick results and empower immediate supply chain agility and profitability

Bio - William Crane is a trusted advisor, published author and early stage investor in supply chain with demonstrated results starting, launching and enhancing procurement, logistics, supplier quality and manufacturing organizations for startups and established companies globally.

He has appeared frequently as a guest author in periodicals like the Institute for Supply Management Weekly, DisruptorDaily.com and Modern Materials Handling, sharing insights on improving new product launches and supply chain operations. Click for full Bio