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Another challenge is how organisations can secure their supply chain “ all the way to customers ”, which she says makes logistics visibility and optimisation vitally important if companies are to achieve operational and financial goals .
Supply problems are in a constant state of flux Gomez and her colleagues at Microsoft seek to bring order to a disordered world , but she concedes that the challenges shape-shift from month to month , and that technology also needs to change fast also to meet the needs of the evolving industry market .
“ The pandemic is largely over but we ’ re continuing to see labour shortages that are impacting manufacturing industries , and manufacturing is a big piece of enabling the supply chain ,” she says .
“ People are also retiring younger , and there ’ s a lack of skilled people who know and understand digital technologies . Businesses have to operate faster to have competitive advantage , so all this is a challenge that ’ s added into the existing complexity .”
12 microsoft . com