Panellists at this year’s Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain North America Live conference agreed that digital supply chain tools have been a great help in navigating urbulent times, however OEMs like Volkswagen think more fundamental gains are reached when people look beyond standard solutions.
Lars Bäumann, who has been responsible for IT systems and processes in production and logistics worldwide at Volkswagen Passenger Cars, said that digitalising supply chain management wasn’t just about setting up a shiny new shared platform. For it to work, you have to rethink the business process and scrap local ways of working that previously operated perfectly well. Naturally, that becomes more difficult, the larger the company is.
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