Gartner Report  

Use External Data in Supply Chain Planning to Improve Business Outcomes, 2024

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Within the Supply Chain ecosystem, you make hundreds if not thousands of decisions a month to improve your forecasting and planning accuracy. The quality of those decisions hinges on what information you have access to, the quality of the data, and the ability to leverage it to improve visibility and decision making.

Per Gartner:

“Supply chains are being exposed to increased uncertainty, variability and risk. High performing supply chain organizations are leveraging data to reengineer their decisions and make them more continuous and contextual to the overall supply chain goals. Making this shift requires access to more data, with increased frequency. SCP technology leaders need to consider more than just their own internal datasets (first-party data). They should also consider which additional second- and third-party data signals can provide a more realistic view of actual, historic and marginal supply chain performance, driving improved decision quality.”

Download this report to discover how by leveraging external data, SCP leaders can enable extended planning capabilities, including:

  • Supply network visibility
  • Risk Identification
  • Improved demand planning via demand sensing
  • Enhanced supply optimization through AI/ML

Gartner, Use External Data in Supply Chain Planning to Improve Business Outcomes, 2024

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