{"id":4240,"date":"2020-08-05T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/australia\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:28:26","slug":"the-digitalisation-of-supply-chains-natural-resources-role-in-thriving-post-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/australia\/2020\/08\/05\/the-digitalisation-of-supply-chains-natural-resources-role-in-thriving-post-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digitalisation of Supply Chains: Natural Resources\u2019 Role in Thriving Post COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
Late last year 麻豆原创 published a whitepaper, Intelligent Supply Chain Processes for Oil and Gas: Use Your Digital Supply Chain to Deliver Superior Customer Experiences<\/a>. While 2020 has certainly changed the way we work and communicate, this whitepaper\u2019s overarching message is still critical, supply chains will always play an essential role in how governments and businesses digitalise its processes to improve efficiency and intelligence across organisations.<\/p>\n Intelligent enterprise<\/a> helps connect siloed processes, systems, and technologies together to provide real-time data analytics and best practices. By integrating every facet of the product lifecycle on a single-platform solution, supply chains<\/a> can be streamlined and embedded with data to highlight opportunities to improve, automate, and expand.<\/p>\n As backend processes communicate with people and equipment in the field, managers can gain greater organisational visibility, gaining oversight of important enterprise data and real-world information that could impact the business, such as traffic, weather, customer demands, and feedback. Furthermore, equipment equipped with intelligent IoT sensors can measure vital usage metrics to improve equipment\u2019s longevity.<\/p>\n The internet of things<\/a> (IoT) is an idea easily thrown around but often misunderstood in terms of capabilities. IoT sensors provide the capacity to monitor, collect, analyse, and manage data in real time from critical business equipment. This ability to respond and adapt means equipment can and automatically trigger service and maintenance actions to minimise business impact. Business leaders can thereby make decisions when they matter most, planning and forecasting with greater accuracy and broader horizons.<\/p>\n With business transparency that feeds data into a centralised system, businesses have access to tighter resource management and control. This helps minimise waste while optimising processes and resource usage, which is critical at a time when the energy and resources sector must consider more sustainable options to continue thriving \u2013 both commercially and within the experience economy.<\/p>\n As the world becomes more socially and environmentally conscious, our industry needs to be ever mindful of the impact we\u2019re having in the regions we operate and on the people we service. This shift alongside the digitalisation of communication platforms means businesses are under more scrutinous eyes than ever, which has led to more customer-centric practices across different industries. The amount of competition, communication channels, and information sources ensures customers have more buying power to influence an organisation\u2019s success.<\/p>\n The digital transformation of supply and communication networks has driven many providers and brands to more personalised offerings, unlocking the value of critical business data to forecast better, service consumers more proactively, and discover best practices by connecting disparate systems to a single source of truth.<\/p>\n