Technology Magazine October 2020 | Page 177

“ We move from simple data to advanced data analytics , and as we do it the supply chain becomes increasingly digitised for us , our suppliers and our customers ”
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“ We move from simple data to advanced data analytics , and as we do it the supply chain becomes increasingly digitised for us , our suppliers and our customers ”

— Dr Nick Miesen , Head of Digital Operations , Henkel Adhesive Technologies do it the supply chain becomes increasingly digitised for us , our suppliers and our customers . It ’ s quite conceptual but it ’ s a very clear and defined process .”
While for Miesen the process is clear there are , he concedes , still challenges to overcome in digitising a supply chain operation . “ We still have data in different systems and formats . The biggest hurdle is getting that data into the right place and in the right order . To a degree , the analytics and visualising of the data is the easy part . The big challenge is found in knowing which sets of data to address first , in trying
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