Digital Transformation and Disruption in Supply Chain Management

The most prominent automation trend in the supply chain has been digitization, which has resulted in the industrialization phase of economic growth.This change is quite crucial for supply chain management as it demands further research and development with continuous improvement to meet the surging demand of the global market.Consumer expectations about real-time visibility in B2C are increasing constantly, and similar demands have started surfacing in B2B also.The companies will have to begin to use new technologies in order to create a digital supply chain that will monitor the processes in real time and offer complex analytics that will help to provide complete optimization and dramatically improved customer experience.This phenomenon of digital transformation is becoming more widespread among several supply chain startups due to the advent of the Internet of Things and increased demand for real-time visibility and connectivity.These changes go beyond consumer-to-business interactions in the B2C realm and also touch professional standards and expectations.Thus, most industries and organizations are upgrading themselves without interrupting the continuity of their supply chain operations.Supply chain management is increasingly considered as a continuous learning process to foster organizational development in light of competitive challenges created by digitalization, globalization, and automation.Information technology has developed very rapidly to support the introduction of new digital methodologies for supply chains to ensure continued, uninterrupted running of operations.