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Companies that built their business models around reducing costs and running "lean" are rethinking their approaches and focusing more on managing risk and building long-term resilience. For help, these companies are turning to technology to gain better visibility into their supply chains; identify and respond to risks before they even occur; and create stronger, more sustainable global networks that can endure mild shocks and respond quickly to more significant ones.As they work to build more resilient supply chains, companies need accurate data and modern visibility platforms that support good decision-making. In absence of these tools, supply chain risk management is handled on a one-off, reactive basis-something that the pandemic proved does not work in today's uncertain business environment.Koray Koese, senior director, analyst of supply chain research and advisory for Gartner, Inc., says 83% of organizations want better supply chain visibility and 64% want to be able to extract more accurate, reliable data from those networks. He says many larger organizations (i.e., those with $1 billion or more in annual revenues) have already checked these two boxes, but adds that supply chain visibility drops off significantly as the tier level of suppliers increases. |