The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of global supply chains in ways that shocked business leaders who had optimized relentlessly for efficiency at the expense of resilience. The response — a wave of supply chain digitization investment — is now delivering results, and the early data suggests that digitized supply chains significantly outperform analog ones across every metric.
Digital Twins for Supply Chain Modeling
Digital twins — real-time virtual models of physical supply chain networks — enable scenario planning and simulation that was previously impossible. Organizations with supply chain digital twins modeled the impact of the Suez Canal blockage in hours, identifying alternative routing options before most competitors had even fully understood the scope of the disruption.