Currently, supply chain ecosystems are undergoing a massive digital disruption, at a scale and pace most are simply not prepared to handle. Fundamental changes in consumer behavior, sales and revenue creation, and routes to market are knocking companies off balance. Responding to this disruption has underscored the need for leaders and CIOs to quickly adopt agile ways of working and value chain transformation to help outmaneuver uncertainty.
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Leaders in the field must make proactive decisions, and take immediate actions to sustain disruption and operations to serve their customers faster, clients and communities, as well as protect and support their workers.
Manage Disruption through Modern Technology
When it comes to making changes, companies need to reassess their technological investments. The way they handle and manage customer data determines their market standing growth rate in the wake of disruption. While legacy systems may have worked in the past, the emerging disruption necessitates the need to embrace modern technology.
Relying on outdated and often disparate solutions simply does not provide delightful customer experiences and satisfaction. It’s never easy to move away from something you’re comfortable with, but the business benefits gained from a modern integration are remarkable, both in the short and long-term clients and communities, as well as protect and support their workers.
By using modern technological solutions, companies can respond rapidly and confidently that will not only mitigate risks but also safeguard the functioning of global supply chains. In doing so, the robust data integration capabilities are crucial in understanding complexity, anticipating potential disruption and quickly developing a response.
Data integration helps companies handle large streams of bi-directional data of customers and ultimately comprehend their needs to deliver value at the speed of business. The benefits of adopting a modern data integration technology are many:
- Business users can easily garner data and insights through configurable, role-based dashboards, pre-built application connectors, and other data-driven functionalities. While users can leverage intuitive screens and dashboards to keep track of data, application connectors can help them create data connections and directly exchange information with applications such as NetSuite, MS Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, SharePoint, HubSpot, and more.
- Business users can transform the way they do business with the trading partner ecosystem by creating a shared template to receive or send, such as invoices, orders, inventory information, shipping information, leads, contacts, contracts, etc from its suppliers.
- The integration part is extremely important, and so the ability to onboard data. Modern data integration solutions enable business users to onboard customer data from months to minutes – what took months earlier can take minutes now. Through the self-serve capabilities, even non-technical users can onboard complex data feeds without relying on IT excessively.
- By increasing the speed of interactions, users can respond to the needs of customers faster. Not only will this help in speeding up operations but also create powerful customer experiences. Companies can use it as a guiding star when it comes to managing and handling customer data and their emerging requirements in the current time of disruption.
Supply chains, especially those that don’t have the access to modern data integration technology can suffer more than they think. And the sooner they understand this, the better it will be. But if you want the full story now, download our whitepaper: Reimagine your Customer Data Integration