B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

This is the second in our three-part series, “Integrationists Wanted.” The series examines the essential role EDI, MFT, EAI and API specialists can play in helping to create value and competitive advantage for companies and organizations in an era of economic disruption.

Hard as it is to imagine now, last year at this time we were holding an in-person event in Columbus, Ohio, the Remedi 2019 Midwest Integration Forum.

Inspiring and forward-looking as those presentations were, no one saw the event coming that virtually overnight would change how we live and work, and how businesses manage their supply chains.

This is the first in our three-part series, “Integrationists Wanted.” The series examines the essential role EDI, MFT, EAI and API specialists can play in helping to create value and competitive advantage for companies and organizations in an era of economic disruption.

At Remedi, we’ve been all in on system and business integration as a corporate and competitive strategy since 1994 when we all did was EDI.

For the past several years, "digital transformation" and "digital maturity" have been thrown about (sometimes correctly, sometimes not). Some firms have ignored those concepts, believing that they didn’t apply to them, or they weren’t ready for that transition. However, it's become clear that now is the time to embark on a digital transformation as well as to increase your firm's digital maturity.

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.

COVID-19 has disrupted industries as well as business-as-usual for individual firms across the world. For some firms, that impact has been positive, while others are deeply struggling. One thing has become clear, though: a digital supply chain is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity.