B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Last week’s installment our series on challenges for supply chains in the post-pandemic era, New Rules for New Tools,explained why last century’s integration tools can’t deliver the immediate visibility and versatility to the teams who design and maintain the data exchange and communication workflows that undergird today’s supply chains.

Last week, we shared with subscribers a fuller discussion around one of the five enduring lessons for the future of supply chain management post Covid-19 in Time To Fix What’s Broken. Where the previous installment in our series explored the pain and risks of relying on last century’s EDI and integration tools, this post will explain strategies and tools built for commerce in a century marked by sudden, sweeping disruption and changing demand patterns that demand agility and speed from companies who want to remain relevant.

Last week, we offered subscribers a deeper dive into a key lesson for leaving the pandemic in their rear-view mirrors with our post What Flexibility Looks Like After Covid-19. If you’re operating with legacy or close-to out of support supply chain communication and business integration tools, you’ll need to overcome functional limitations and process rigidity before you can experience flexibility in your workflows.

In the wake of Covid-19’s disruption, we’ve been hearing (and contributing to) a lot of conversations about the need for supply chains to be flexible.  In fact, in last week’s post about the five lessons for supply chains in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, lesson number one was “Stay Flexible”.

This post isn’t about how to deal with the fallout from the pandemic. Like us, you’ve been dealing with it for the past several months. This post is about the lessons Covid-19 can teach us about being prepared for the unexpected.