Svitlana Gildebrandt speaks at HR IT Insider

Supply chain management (SCM) encompasses a broad spectrum of processes essential for efficiently orchestrating the entire journey of a product, from sourcing raw materials to crafting the final masterpiece and distributing it economically. By integrating a series of strategic actions, SCM optimizes the seamless flow of goods, services, information, and costs across crucial stages: planning, sourcing, production, inventory management, and logistics. To gain a competitive edge, companies employ a combination of well-defined supply chain strategies and advanced management software.       The success of supply chain management relies on the collective efforts of all participants involved—ranging from suppliers and manufacturers to every link in the chain—to ensure its seamless operation. Achieving this level of efficiency demands strong change management, cooperation, and risk management, fostering alignment and collaboration among all partners.

The recent banking fraud survey in 2019 revealed that modern financial institutions (FIs) have to overcome many challenges, including cyberattacks, data breaches, slow payments, and adopting digital tools. These hurdles are the main reasons why banks and financial firms have faced low efficiency and decreased customer satisfaction. All this inevitably leads to a drop in revenues. The payments today need to be faster and the security within banks needs improvements. Thankfully, the highly digitized fintech industry offers the solution – EDI or electronic data interchange. For the financial sector, EDI means seamless transactions, enhanced security, automated processes, fewer costs, elevated customer service and more. Look under the hood to see how EDI works.

The e-commerce market is growing: Statista calculated that revenue would be up to 6.54 trillion US dollars by 2022, and it’s estimated that, in 2020, there will be 2.05 billion digital buyers worldwide. For business, it means new challenges in warehouse and inventory management, demand for 3pl logistics implementation, and discovering innovative response to increasing demand in accurate quick product delivery. Technologies such as AR (augmented reality), sophisticated robotics, drones, smart glasses for hands-free packaging are minimizing company costs, boosting competitiveness, and leading to customer satisfaction. Alongside these tools, it’s worth mentioning warehouse management software-driven changes to speed up orders fulfillment or decrease inefficiencies.

One of the largest US stock market makers struggled to stay afloat after a software bug caused a loss of $440 million in just 30 minutes. The company’s shares lost 75% in two days after the faulty software flooded the market with erratic trades—Knight’s trading algorithms launched faulty trades through nearly 150 different stocks. That’s why choosing the right system and style of management is the key to successful software development. Today, we have tons of approaches, and they all have their pros and cons. It’s a difficult and crucial task for your future or ongoing project to choose the smartest strategy as well as define objectives, budget, and deadlines. We have investigated the most popular and beneficial software development methodologies to give you a distinct image of what the industry suggests at the current moment.