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As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series<\/a>\u2014a collection of articles written by industry thought leaders in maturing software categories\u2014Adrian Wood, Strategic Business Development Director at DELMIA<\/a>, provides some insights into automation’s integral role in the manufacturing supply chain.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In broad terms, automation is a term for technology applications with minimal human input. Whereas automation capabilities may have been regarded as science fiction at one point, it is now definitely coming of age, especially in the supply chain realm.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n Supply chain automation uses digital technologies to connect applications, streamline processes, and enhance efficiencies within supply chain operations in the manufacturing environment. According to a <\/span>recent report<\/span><\/a> by Deloitte, the automation sector is expanding at <\/span>a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 40.6 percent per year<\/span><\/a> and is expected to reach $25.66 billion by 2027.<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There are numerous benefits to supply chain automation. Here are a few of the most significant ones.<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Automation can be viewed from a couple of different perspectives. <\/span>Firstly, the requirement to automate data collection drives the supply chain planning decisions. Typically, in strategic planning, a lot of information exchanges are done by email and Excel spreadsheet, which is both problematic from a timing point of view and an accuracy point of view.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Intelligent automation can assist companies in developing a flexible, agile, autonomous, responsive, and scalable supply chain. The supply chain is the backbone of business operations. Companies must be fully aware of the various activities in the supply chain to ensure it’s working optimally.<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Strategic planning is a collaborative process, and automation assists in keeping people accountable for that process. It makes it far easier to follow a best-in-class process if you have an automated workflow with a dashboard of activities. This collaborative approach relies on seamless automation for people to follow along in sequence, ensuring everyone’s viewpoints are included, and the correct data is collected and stored.\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of having people enter data manually, which is a laborious process and susceptible to error, a company can automate the more intricate components of their data collection to ensure best-in-class practices and the optimal output of the overall planning process.\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If your factory is the “heart” of your manufacturing organization, your supply chain is the arteries and veins. Your business’s operational efficiency depends on all these components being effectively connected to deliver a reliable service.<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Implementing automation in the supply chain process allows companies to “sense and respond.” This is another way to ensure efficiency, streamlining, and overall productivity. If you have automated feeds into the planning process and you receive signals from the supply or demand side that require rapid changes based on disruption, automation allows the system to function autonomously. This prevents costly delays.\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For example, DELMIA has implemented an automated workflow generator and automated reply based on the demand changes in the system census. This means the data can be viewed collaboratively throughout the process and verified by the right people at the right time. This automation solution removes the frustrating delays you may typically get when waiting for people to input data manually.\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We’re most certainly living in exciting, albeit nerve-wracking times. Between politics and pandemics, manufacturers must think on their feet to keep abreast of the ever-changing, lightning-quick developments in consumer trends and technological advancements. <\/span>Automation technologies have become super sophisticated. From carefully synchronized planning to customer connection, smart factory practices, intelligent supply methods, digital development, and dynamic delivery\u2014automation is changing how we do business.<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thus, from both a collaborative\/people and data\/planning point of view, automation is vital in allowing your system to be easily accessible, up-to-date, and accurate. It ultimately allows everyone on the team to follow along in the sequence output through automated feeds into the planning process.\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series\u2014a collection of articles written by industry thought leaders in maturing software categories\u2014Adrian Wood, Strategic Business Development Director at DELMIA, provides some insights into automation’s integral role in the manufacturing supply chain.\u202f\u202f\u00a0 In broad terms, automation is a term for technology applications with minimal human input. Whereas automation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"featured_media":6373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3095,2963,2916,3096],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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