Why CIOs are turning to digital twins to future-proof the supply chain

By Debajit Sen, Principal Architect, Calsoft

A disruption in Shenzhen has the potential to throw off a company’s entire launch plan in San Francisco. All the data available through dashboards, control towers and analytics may give you visibility into your supply chain across many levels; however, they do not correspond to the timeliness of a disruption itself.

Instead of just “what’s going on?” The focus now is on how technology will factor into every aspect of a company’s supply chain operations. Rather than waiting for problems to develop, businesses want to be proactive about them.
Digital twins are becoming an effective way to do this.

Unlike conventional analytics tools, which are structured to give a snapshot view of past performance, a supply chain digital twin utilizes artificial intelligence to maintain an evolving digital representation of physical business operations in recent history. Digital twins represent ...