Gartner supply chain tech trends 2022: Analytics
Analytics are capabilities that deliver reporting, interactive data visualization, advanced analytics and intelligence — including ML and predictive and prescriptive analytics. With the ever-growing availability of data, AI can now be applied to transform data into information and deeper insights as part of a DSCT.
Gartner supply chain tech trends 2022: Security mesh
Security mesh is a structured framework of governance, collaboration and applied technology applications that are orchestrated from within supply chains with the aim of ensuring supply chain systems, tools, applications and people are safe and secure at all times.
“Security in supply chains is only as strong as its weakest link,” Klappich says. “Security mesh embraces the reality of dynamic, interconnected and increasingly digitalized supply chains by addressing an evolving nexus of threats posed by cyber, digital and data.”
Gartner supply chain tech trends 2022: Ecosystem collaboration
Ecosystem collaboration tools are digital technologies and services that create a collaborative work environment for people and generates new and continuous shared value opportunities. The pandemic has revealed to supply chain leaders that many supply chains don’t have basic communications or digital connectivity in place with key stakeholders, such as multi-tier supply networks or packaging networks – which has ramifications on decision making.
Ecosystem collaboration solutions and services establish foundational network visualization and mapping tools to support continuous maturity in advancing to real-time digital connections across people, data, machines, systems, processes and things.
Gartner supply chain tech trends 2022: Sustainability tools
Sustainability tools are an evolving spectrum of applications, services and capabilities that support events associated with directives for sustainability, environmental and circular economy impacts and mandates. They enhance levels of digitalization, collaboration and visibility, which is often crucial to formalize the processes and management disciplines needed for a progressive evolution of sustainability programs.
“Sustainability has impacts that span the entire value chain — from plan, to source, to make, to deliver, to the service domain. Supply chain leaders who don’t invest in tools that support a wide range of sustainability goals and metrics risk a significant impact on brand, company image and consumer value perception. There’s also a risk of stranded assets, vulnerability to carbon tax, unpreparedness for climate-related supply chain disruptions – and accordingly shareholder value,” Klappich concluded.
