Çağlayan Arkan presents the Art of Possible : Reimagining the future of manufacturing with AI
“ Because manufacturing is about growth . It ’ s about employment . It ’ s about innovation . It ’ s about competitiveness at all levels , not limited to enterprises . Then , in this world , you have to do all of that very , very sustainably , and you have to ensure cybersecurity .”
All of those require partnerships and Microsoft is ready in terms of whatever is required from technology .
“ We ’ re empowering our customers to actually think about the business and how they want to differentiate themselves , how they want to change their own culture and bring their people together in that journey .”
Supply chain challenges at Microsoft At this point , supply chain challenges in manufacturing are no longer front page news . What the manufacturing sector has seen is lack of visibility in supply chains .
“ I don ’ t know how many conversations I had with customers in terms of ‘ I can ’ t see my inventory . I don ’ t know if my contract manufacturers are manufacturing for me , my tier one , tier two suppliers ’ – how do you find your goods and how do you still reroute , reinsure ? All of that is all about visibility , being able to not only react , but also predict things . All of those are things that we ’ re working on .”
For Microsoft , the greatest supply chain challenge has been managing its data .
“ I think today , in supply chains , there are two things that are very critical to figure out . One , we talked about the data challenges on the plant floor . Supply chain includes the manufacturing operations ,
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