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The future that digital supply chains offer

Professor Ying Xie of the Cranfield School of Management explores a hypothetical model to demonstrate the power that an end-to-end digital supply chain can offer.

In supply chains, we have robotics replacing labour to cover repeated work, to improve efficiency, improve health and safety, and also reduce costs. We have warehouses using AR and VR to locate goods or to identify faults in machines. We have seen drones deliver products to a doorstep in some areas, and delivering products to rural a…

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