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from the effects of climate change and extreme weather. Organisations often prepare for single episodes of extreme weather through modelling, but they lack the ability to model correlated failures or ongoing trends that can combine to cause long delays. Organisations need to put this right, addressing infrastructure fragility and its ability to amplify supply chain shocks. Factory & Handling Solutions often focuses
on the practical realities of production, warehousing and materials handling. For readers investing in automation and new digital tools:
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP TO TAKE NOW, TO ENSURE THOSE INVESTMENTS CREATE DECISION-READY DATA THAT TEAMS CAN ACT ON, RATHER THAN ADDING ANOTHER DISCONNECTED LAYER OF REPORTING? Mark Holmes: Warehouses produce a huge amount of data that has little value without the ability to ingest, harmonise, analyse and act on in real-time.
a pick completion, a production output, or a late despatch vary by site or system, it is not possible to make successful use of AI. It leads which seems to be where the rest of content below is not going.
internal systems, SKU attributes/naming, and external data sources/applications is necessary for AI solutions that assist in decision making, demand forecasting and predictive maintenance on machinery including AI-enabled robots and real-time drone inventory stock analysis. The priority is to make data AI-ready
by improving governance, quality and integration, to ensure that insights are timely and trusted. Organisations with strengthened master data, tightened governance and integrated operational systems have data that moves with minimal delay between all the
relevant logistics partners and customers, the warehouse and planning and execution teams and the myriad of applications they interact with. Organisations with harmonised free-
understand its cause and enable corrective action in time to change the outcome with prescriptive ROI based decision making back to the LOB and directly into machines and warehousing applications as required. When organisations can measure improvements in response time and decision quality, they have a clear indicator that their data strategy is supporting real operational impact.
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