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By Doug Hunter, Manager: Customer and Ecosystem
Enablement, SYSPRO, Doug.Hunter@syspro.com

As supply chains crumble with unexpected disruptions, is information technology (IT) any
different? You bet it is.

History of the future that work together to solve problems we set – and at
The Sinclair Cambridge, Texas Instruments the speed of light today.

Scientific and HP Business Consultant
calculators were new technology around When it comes to the application of IT,
the same time that the supply/value just doing, speeding up or simplifying the
chain emerged 50-odd years ago. answers to problems we set was fine, but is it

High-tech indeed, and costly. It was enough decades later? Of course not.
technology that sped up human ability
with a few functions. But calculators Engineering technology that assists
are relegated to being one basic production, storage management and
but essential function in the transport/distribution has developed

background of scientific
and business IT. Just
a processor in a
mass of connected
processors driving
myriad functions

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