Moves into the Mainstream Merging standards and technology will move the food supply chain to a place where partners will be able to “sense and respond” to the overall needs of the chain.
According to Sid Snitkin, vice president, ARC Advisory Group, “The ultimate goal of supply chain management (SCM) software is to enable a company and its partners to “sense and respond” to changes in the characteristics of products, the demand for products and the supply of materials used to make products in a way that, at the end of the day, always meets consumers’ needs at an optimized cost.” In the food industry Snitkin finds that, “the variation in raw product combined with the proliferation of SKUs creates significant challenges for supply chain software vendors.”