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Conscious Supply Network is ushering in a new era of supply chain transformation and battening down the hatches for Supply Chain 4.0 .
Nokia ’ s vision was a simple one : to transform its factories into ‘ the conscious factory ’ – an agile and intelligent manufacturing service that is fully-automated , green , self-learning , and able to predict and prevent supply flexibly .
To make this hi-tech network a reality , the Finnish giant zeroed in on four crucial areas : digitisation , analytics , robotics and transparency . It leveraged tools such as cloud computing , Internet of Things ( IoT ), analytics , machine learning , robotic process automation ( RPA ) as well as augmented and virtual reality . In doing so it has created an endto-end supply chain solution that is more visible , adaptable , and smarter than anything before .
A conscious supply network It has been a mammoth task for Nokia , but it is one which the team believes will revolutionise manufacturing forever .
“ In former times , if you outsourced a factory it was like a black box ,” explains Johannes Giloth , Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Chief Procurement Officer at Nokia . “ You placed an order there and waited until the delivery arrived but , in between , you couldn ’ t see anything . With our conscious factory , I can see in real-time
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