In today’s world, you may already know that in the modern era there are myriad of technologies you can find, such as the touchscreen pad, to automation and ai, and to even to digital technologies such as the social media and website, but while some of technologies may be cool to see, you may wonder specifically about the digital technologies and wondering how can you use it benefit your supply chains management, and you are not alone as companies also wonder how to use the new digital tech to benefits their supply chains management for their businesses. In this article, I will explain how digitalization of supply chains management benefits companies’ businesses.

What technology that can help companies with digitalization of supply chain?

Have you ever wondered when you think about the digital era for supply chain and had wonder, what are the technology use to ensure the digitalization of the supply chain to be successful and the answer is there is technology that is used for the digital supply chains and the first technology was used is Internet of Things (IoT), what does internet of things do? It provides company with a method to keep a real time track of their products, supplies and may more, and it also provide with a means to keep real time data on the condition and the movement of their goods. The second technology that was used is artificial intelligence, and this should obvious, as artificial intelligence provides optimization for the companies inventory levels while also provides automation to reduce the human error that could occur in a supply chains while also processing data. Now those are the major technology used, what are the minor one, that technology that provides utility but not in major in anyway, for example you have 5g that allowed any automation equipment to have stable wireless connection and also provide better communication when delivering supplies, another one is cloud computing as this one provides companies with a better information visibility and reduce cost.

What are the benefits for digitalization of supply chains to a company?

With the technology for digitalization of supply chain, a question that comes now would be how much benefit does companies gain from digitalization of their supply chains  and what are the benefit, that answer would be lot of benefit can be gain from doing digitalization, for example by going digital, a company can reduce the cost and improved their revenue because they essential remove all of the manual task by using automation, another example is that when companies use artificial intelligence and internet of things on their supply chains, the companies now has visibility to their entire supply chains, all process, all the delivery, and all the material provided, into information to gather for the companies to check. On other words, there is a lot of benefits for going digital in supply chains. Which why most companies used these technologies.

 

Reference

Pixelplex (2022). Digital Transformation in Supply Chain: Key Trends, Technologies, and Use Cases. https://pixelplex.io/blog/what-is-digital-transformation-in-supply-chain/

T.Leigh Buehler (2023). Digital Supply Chain Management: 7 Essential Elements. https://www.apu.apus.edu/area-of-study/business-and-management/resources/digital-supply-chain-management-7-essential-elements/#:~:text=Artificial%20intelligence%20(AI)%20and%20machine%20learning%20(ML)%20can,optimize%20operations%2C%20and%20automate%20processes.

Naomi Skinner (2025). 8 Benefits of leveraging the digital supply chain. https://blogs.opentext.com/8-benefits-of-leveraging-the-digital-supply-chain/

Abby Jenkins (2025). What Is Supply Chain Digitization? Benefits, Challenges and Key Trends. https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/erp/supply-chain-digitization.shtml#:~:text=However%2C%20there%20are%20also%20challenges%20to%20supply,Integrating%20AI%20and%20analytics%20*%20Enhancing%20cybersecurity

Guest blogger (2024). 4 Challenges in Supply Chain Digitization and Solutions. https://www.allthingssupplychain.com/4-challenges-in-supply-chain-digitization-and-solutions/