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Guest Blog courtesy of David Steven Jacoby Author of RETOOLING AMERICA: For AI-Driven Supply Chains By 2030 most supply chain activities will be 70-80% AI-driven. Repetitive events such as requisitioning, order management, contracting, payment, accounting and recurring sourcing events will be triggered and executed by algorithms. |
Supply chain risk will be managed smarter than today. Strategic, periodic activities such as supply chain network design and strategic supplier selection will remain in the capable hands of managers, but overall, we will continue to see more and “smarter” (cognitive) automation; with robotic process automation (RPA) and AI increasingly blending.
Companies will need to develop artificial intelligence and robotic solutions to sense and respond to activity at the edge of supply chain boundaries. They will need AI to enhance demand planning and management (learning supply-demand balancing), contracting and order management (smart contracting and order management: establishing complete traceability), manufacturing (digital twins and supply chain control towers: replicating the physical factory), and engaging customers continuously (planting & watering the money tree). They will need robotic solutions in the fields of additive manufacturing (to customize production), in warehouses (to standardize delivery chains), in drone delivery (to deliver anywhere, anytime), and in last-km/m/cm delivery (for reliable unmanned delivery).
Supply Chain Management (SCM) Operators need the ability to rapidly collect and process huge volumes of data to rapidly reduce manual work, eliminate errors, and improve operational velocity and efficiencies. Logistics Providers need to identify and rapidly deliver documented operating efficiencies to customers.
ViziApps can be deployed as an embedded and connected platform within your Enterprise Private Cloud and eliminate 90% of the effort to build and deploy mobile workflow apps. This approach accelerates time-to-value by enabling SCM functional experts to focus on rapidly building apps while the complexities of security, data linking and large-scale deployment are handled centrally on a platform basis.
ViziApps “fills the gap” and helps teams rapidly create and use mobile and web apps. The big win? Squeezing out manual work and rapidly connecting and uploading real-life data and observations for continuous improvement. These, in turn, enable and leverages backend big data, ML/AI, Chatbots, and automation.
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ViziApps now provides a ViziApps template app callced OSHA Safety Audits sample app. The ViziApps mobile version provides a tangible ROI for inspection tasks, saving from $150 to $300 per inspection by providing significant time savings.
The OSHA app can be used by field workers or auditors to perform inspections at a construction site. This fully functioned mobile app supports iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet, and leverages device-specific features that optimize the field data collection and reporting workflow.
The ViziApps OSHA app demonstrates the following features:
- Login with employee ID or bar-code scanning of a badge
- Read and write to database tables
- Drill down to Status lists, Checklists, and Corrective actions
- Add text content to database tables
- Ability to capture photographs and place into image field
- Real-time GPS lookup of location
- Voice to text capture of notes (for all text fields)
- Device-based signatures for certification of results
- Initiate phone calls (e.g., to call a supervisor)
- Show map based on current physical address
Jessica D'Oliveira, Analyst for Forrester, recently wrote about the value of low-code development, especially in a start-up environment. Before joining Forrester, D'Oliveira created more than 50 no-code minimum viable products, which provided a great perspective on how these solutions can be used.
D'Oliveira says the solutions were “Built for — or with — entrepreneurs looking to launch digital businesses. This experience gave me firsthand insight into the ways that low-code platforms can solve startup problems, the hurdles that face founders who want to adopt a low-code platform, and ways that vendors could improve their ability to connect with founders and startups.”
One of the key observations made was that low-code can help solve the scale problem for startups. According to D'Oliveira, in their rush to validate their idea, startups frequently streamline their front ends by gluing together multiple back-end services.