{"id":22637,"date":"2024-04-19T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/supply-chain-and-cloud-computing-scalability-and-flexibility\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:33:46","slug":"supply-chain-and-cloud-computing-scalability-and-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/en\/supply-chain-and-cloud-computing-scalability-and-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and cloud computing: scalability and flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several years now, there has been intense talk about supply chain disruption, or the transformations that have forced companies to rethink their supply chains<\/strong>. Every company is, therefore, looking for solutions that will enable it to cope with this paradigm shift. One possible answer is Supply Chain Management in the Cloud<\/strong>, a shift to next-generation solutions that enable it to meet the needs of today’s market<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Supply chain in the cloud: the flexibility you need<\/h2>\n<\/div>

To understand how supply chain management has changed, one only needs to look at the price lists of raw materials or suppliers, which are now more volatile than ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, confirmation also comes from authoritative sources such as Moody’s Analytics\u00b9, which highlights difficulties in strategic sourcing and the geopolitical situation as two of the main challenges for 2024. Accenture, for its part, offers a veritable handbook\u00b2 on how to deal with Supply Chain Disruption more broadly. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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One thing is certain: companies need to be agile in their decision-making and even faster in their execution<\/strong>, including choices about supply and management of products and goods. In this context, the cloud becomes a natural supply chain ally, both for its inherent efficiency and for the flexibility it offers. <\/p>\n

Supply chain and cloud computing: the known benefits<\/h2>\n

Before going any further, a clarification is necessary: when we talk about the cloud in relation to supply chain management, and for most of the tools to support the supply chain, we mainly mean Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions<\/strong>, where the entire application is provided by an operator and used on a fee or subscription basis.<\/p>\n

This solution offers the inherent advantages of the cloud<\/strong>, which we briefly recall:<\/p>\n