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Stefan
Gstettner : Digital supply chain transformation is not a technology transformation | BCG Could you lend your thoughts on how new technologies can help with this ? “ From my perception , there are two schools of thoughts on this . The first one is let ' s manage volatility by becoming better at predicting volatility . That encompasses advanced demand planning , forecasting , demand sensing , and demand shaping to anticipate better and then to be better able to respond to it . That ' s the first school .
“ The second school says , look , not all volatility can be anticipated , so let us be agile and respond to volatility as it comes . And I don ' t believe in predicting volatility because , per definition , it ' s quite hard to predict volatility . I would say the truth is somewhere in the middle .
“ I see the best companies doing both . Investing in becoming better to predict what is predictable , also be realistic , but still being high-end in capabilities to predict the future because with AI and some forwardlooking indicators , predictions have become much better even for volatile demands . Then , building agility into the supply chain remains super important in logistics , in manufacturing , also upstream to suppliers and the combination between building an affordable degree of agility in the supply chain plus becoming better in predicting
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