"There's going to be a tsunami of data that's going to be available and the challenge is going to be how we actually analyze all this and do something with it." That's an observation by Jim Rice, director of the Integrated Supply Chain Management Program at MIT. He believes tools and processes are emerging to enable a fully integrated, completely synchronized supply chain. "We are just on the cusp of lots of great potential."
Indeed, today's supply chain management technology can localize global commerce on your desktop.
Source: Industry Week, http://industryweek.com