Caitlin Roberson

Did you miss our recent Industry 4.0 webinar with SAP? On March 23rd, Mike Lackey with SAP and Tobias Hoffmeister with MHP Americas Inc joined Scott and Greg to discuss Industry 4.0, how the opportunity to get started is NOW, and how to make that digital transformation to your R&D, manufacturing, and assets. If you missed the live session, no worries! Click here and access it right on the Supply Chain Now website.

written by Nick Gospodinov, Founder & CEO of Mandel AI   There is a dirty secret in supply chain management: the most critical information about your orders, delays, and supplier commitments doesn’t live in your ERP. It lives in email. Not in dashboards. Not in control towers. In inboxes. Ask any procurement manager what they do first thing in the morning, and the answer is almost always the same: open Outlook, start scrolling. A supplier confirmed a ship date in a reply chain. A freight forwarder flagged a delay in an attachment. A pricing update came through as a PDF buried in a thread from two weeks ago. This is the real operating system of supply chain, and it has no search, no alerts, no reconciliation, and no memory.   The Coordination Gap No One Talks About The supply chain technology market has poured billions into planning, visibility, and execution systems. These tools work when the data is clean, structured, and already inside the system. The problem is that the most operationally critical information never makes it there in time. Manufacturers and distributors manage hundreds, sometimes thousands, of supplier relationships. Each one generates a constant stream of unstructured communication: order…