“ This shift is directly impacting supply chain social responsibility and ethical value chains ,” he says , with the most successful companies understanding and delivering upon customer expectations . This will make businesses both more efficient and competitive .
He sees AI as playing an important and positive role in driving this process forwards , allowing humans to focus more on the higher value added cognitive activities .
“ 60 % of the tasks might be fully automated in the near future , but human beings will still be in charge of designing the sustainable supply chains ,” he says . “ Technology clearly needs to be an enabler to this change , not an impediment . Human beings can spend more time thinking .”
It is this which Janoshalmi describes as the Fifth Industrial Revolution , placing the human being at the ethical heart of business .
“ There ’ s no stopping the Fifth Industrial Revolution ,” he says . “ Technology driven , new efficiencies and new capabilities described the Fourth Industrial Revolution . And now we are looking at the Fifth , which is how we humanise all of this change . A really significant part of this human centric , industrial revolution is making sure that processes are ethical .”
SAP works with partners to make supply chains more ethical and more transparent . One cooperation is with FRDM , a provider of supply chain mapping technology for companies and governments , established by Janoshalmi ’ s close business friend Justin Dillon .
144 December 2021