Building a Business Case for Supply Chain Execution in the Cloud
For companies of all sizes, supply chain execution represents a huge opportunity to generate business value.
Add Strategic Value to Your Business
Getting your products to your customers is critical to business success. Yet often, supply chain execution, and particularly transportation management, is viewed as transactional and not strategic - a cost center rather than a value-creator.
In the past, investing in a supply chain execution (SCE) system meant a commitment to an enterprise installation, extensive integration and ongoing IT maintenance. While on-premises deployments of a SCE system may still make sense for a large company with an established IT infrastructure, today’s Cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) based systems deliver a strategic solution at a much lower upfront cost and a faster time to benefit. In addition, they now cover several critical areas of supply chain execution, including transportation management, warehousing and logistics - providing a single solution for greater efficiency, agility and overall visibility.
In building a business case for moving supply chain execution to the Cloud, you should consider three key factors - multimodal transportation growth, competitive advantage and return on investment (ROI).
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