Business complexity has increased exponentially in the last decade. It is embedded not only in the complex global operating landscape of locations and partners but also in systems and processes that evolve around these complexities. The mammoth levels of supply chain complexities that companies are currently facing may be outliers, but they are the result of business intricacies. To address issues arising from complexity, the foundational step is to have complete visibility into people, processes, and systems, thereby providing the opportunity to identify possible disruptions and act in time when disruptions happen. Hence, the need to improve supply chain visibility emerged as the number one driver (39%).
Visibility is powerful only when capabilities exist to leverage that visibility and act upon it. One aspect is obviously to leverage that data to respond to any occurring or possible disruptions much faster. Visibility data provides an opportunity to address disruptions and can be leveraged for real-time operational planning. The ability for end-to-end planning hence also emerged among the top driver (38%), followed by a faster response to disruptions (34%), as seen in. figure 1. While the survey deadline is approaching, you can still participate in the research by taking 
Supply Chain Planning and Business Agility
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SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. This was evident in the choice of top business drivers highlighted by SAPinsiders.This article shares business driver inputs from SAPinsiders indicating the importance of supply chain agility.
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