Integrated Business Planning takes off in the cloud

In a recent SCM World Chief Supply Chain Officer Report, the top 4 disruptive technologies for supply chain where big data analytics, digital supply chain, the internet of things and cloud computing.

Another finding from the report was that more than 80% of respondents in CPG, hi-tech and chemicals firms, and over 70% in industrial, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, distribution and retail firms, are either very concerned or somewhat concerned about demand volatility.

In a new article by Martin Barkman titled, Integrated Business Planning for Demand Transparency, he discusses how in the face of all these challenges, cloud-based solutions for integrated business planning and supply chain monitoring enable companies to transform their supply chains by facilitating real-time decision making, providing visibility to drive predictive demand planning, and helping to orchestrate the right response.