It is now evident how digital technologies are about to create great changes in all contexts, including industrial ones, and how in every great period of change there will be winners and losers.
The area that will be most subject to profound changes will be that of production planning and scheduling . In fact, it is one of the areas that presents the greatest problems today, where high investments in the warehouse are contrasted by numerous missing materials, in the face of long delivery times and uncertain dates. An area dominated by continuous urgencies, where the ERP must be supported by an infinity of Excel sheets and continuously corrected manually by willing operators.
To try to be among the first on the market, it is good to be aware of the opportunities but also of the risks, which are much less talked about.