It has been four decades since South Africa hosted its first supply chain conference, SAPICS. Since then, there has been significant innovation, leading to evolutionary trends and a change in approach.<\/p>\n
Cassie Lessing, MD, Strato IT Group, a mobile business solutions provider, says that the majority of today\u2019s industries are driven not just by technology innovation, but equally by the service provided.<\/p>\n
\u201cService ahead of product is not new, but as the supply chain industry continues to develop, the importance of service will develop, gaining focus and importance,\u201d said Lessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, product will feature less and service will define success moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lessing says that as the industry enters the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are several emerging technologies that will influence and shape the future of supply chain.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are faced with technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and 3D Printing,\u201d said Lessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese will all influence and impact supply chain immensely, with the majority touching on the concept of service and the importance of the role it plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Service can be the difference between success and failure. Lessing says that perfect order metrics often defines success for clients. He says that this mostly means delivering the right product to the right person, at the right time, with the correct information.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the latter where things often go wrong, documentation is often lost, incorrect or unsigned upon delivery,\u201d said Lessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis can cause significant issues for both companies and even lead to non-payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having developed a proof of delivery (POD) app four years ago, Lessing says he has first-hand knowledge of the impact this technology has had on supply-chain heavy businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cA perfect order before using the app was a challenge, we now have clients that are much closer to achieving their goals within the supply chain thanks to the ePOD,\u201d said Lessing.<\/p>\n
StratoPOD, the Strato IT Group\u2019s app, has helped clients work towards the industry standard of \u2018right first time\u2019 and has assisted in building stronger and more information-rich supply chain departments.<\/p>\n
Lessing said: \u201cThe app greatly assists in improving service delivery and also provides information-rich data to the client.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Strato IT Group will be participating in the 40th<\/sup> SAPICS at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town from June 10 to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been four decades since South Africa hosted its first supply chain conference, SAPICS. Since then, there has been significant innovation, leading to evolutionary trends and a change in approach. Cassie Lessing, MD, Strato IT Group, a mobile business solutions provider, says that the majority of today\u2019s industries are driven not just by technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,103,399,19,269],"tags":[5498,386,5497,4724,155,1341,5496,1882,4725,4726],"class_list":["post-19313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-mobile","category-more-news","category-regional-news","category-trade-logistics","tag-3d-printing","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-augemented-and-virtual-reality","tag-cassie-lessing","tag-internet-of-things","tag-robotics","tag-sapics","tag-southern-africa","tag-strato-it-group","tag-stratopod"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19317,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions\/19317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}