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6 Reasons your Supply Chain should be moving to the Cloud.

It’s hanging above us on a daily basis. The boundaries of its powers are still being tested. And, chances are, it’s going to (or already has begun to) change your business’ actions and strategies forever.

The Cloud…

Not stratocumulus, cumulus, cirrus or altostratus.

I’m talking about cloud computing, but more specifically, cloud-based applications and solutions.

What is Cloud Computing?

“Cloud Computing [uses] resources as a utility, rather than building and maintaining computing infrastructure. Resources are present at a place and when required can be used to the demand. It is the large scale distributed computing where services are delivered to customers on demand over high-speed internet”. (Banerjee, Paul & Biswas 2016).

Solutions functioning within cloud-based frameworks compute on a common platform where all users that have permission to enter that particular cloud are computing in parallel. Cloud computing can be privatized or taken public.

Some of the world’s largest software vendors have been creating business solutions within the context of cloud computing since the early 2000’s. Today, it is accepted as one of the largest forms of technologically enhanced integration, sharing, and storage for business systems all over the globe.

Supply Chain Management: Moving to the Cloud

Businesses globally have realized the potential for applying cloud-based solutions into their supply chain strategies, and activities, to increase proficiency and profitability.

Today, a supply chain without a cloud-based solution — of some kind — in place would be considered an outlier from the norm. While cloud-based solutions have seen high levels of implementations into specific portions of the supply chain, others have been neglected.

The Cloud is built on a concept of a holistic platform; accessible by many to provide input and output - to breakdown silos, increase productivity and streamline communication.

If you’re not already taking the same holistic approach - to cloud-based integration - in your supply chain management, maybe you need that little extra nudge.

I’m happy to provide you with that nudge. :)

Here is: 6 Reasons your Supply Chain should already be in the Cloud.

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