Market Guide for Supply Chain Cost-to-Serve Analytics Technology
According to Gartner, “Supply chain technology leaders responsible for strategy can formulate a strong plan for cost-to-serve technology implementation by analyzing the definition, trajectory and representative players in the market.”
- Creating a sustainable and adaptable supply chain cost-to-serve (CTS) model is challenging due to existing gaps in the data required and limitations in the technology selected to conduct the analysis.
- Most commonly, organizations start developing their CTS capability using spreadsheet applications, such as Microsoft Excel, or leveraging their existing business intelligence (BI) platform. Although these tools are good starting points for one-off exercises, they are not ideal for long-term effort that require frequent updates.
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