The analysts at IDC Manufacturing Insights recommend that we all become familiar with the following terms: "Demand aware", "Supply visible” and "Innovation networked".

Those concepts will become the three lobes at the center of the next-generation supply chain as technology and modern mobile tools (including big data) shape the way goods are manufactured and flow.

Key points from this 12-page whitepaper - which features a number of detailed graphs - include:

• The rising use of mobility tools in the supply chain
• Dynamic networks will take over from point-to-point relationships
• The increasing importance of customer engagement
• The changing role of inter and intra-company collaboration

This white paper is sponsored by Epicor. To download your copy, please fill out the form on this page.