The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain (Wiley and SAS Business Series) - Hardcover

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VINIT SHARMA is a cloud solutions architect at Microsoft where he continually pushes the cutting edge of the Microsoft data platform and artificial intelligence. He's worked in IT for more than fifteen years on projects involving cloud computing, virtualization, and enabling advanced analytics solutions for global teams in R&D, sales, and professional services. He is author of numerous white papers, methodologies, best practices, and implementation guides for the SAS Institute.

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Praise for THE CLOUD-BASED DEMAND-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAIN

"A brilliant book that offers a thorough description of cloud computing concepts, architectures and technologies, and how cloud computing can support the value generation in connected supply chains. Sharma touches on all aspects of modern supply chains, such as demand sensing, Big Data, IoT, supply chain control towers, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, while providing detailed case studies and practical examples."
Anders Richter, AI and supply chain expert, Knowit Decision

"A brilliant book for everyone interested in understanding the connected supply chain ecosystem both business and technology implications. Sharma, a cloud deployment expert himself, explores all relevant areas of advanced supply chains of manufacturing organizations, covering topics like sensing demand signals, SCM control towers, and artificial intelligence, as well as showcasing case studies and practical examples. An insightful book."
Nilmadhab Mandal, Research Director, IDC UK

FIND THE TRANSPARENCY YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN NEEDS IN THE CLOUD

The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain is your go-to resource of dependable guidance for improving forecasting, collaboration, and inventory optimization in ways that can lead to major cost savings and a competitive advantage. Culled from author Vinit Sharma's extensive work as principal technical architect at the SAS Institute and cloud solutions architect at Microsoft, this practical guidebook quickly puts you in a position to make and influence highly informed decisions on customizing cloud-based strategies to optimize supply-chain performance.

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Technological innovation and retail disrupters have raised the bar for consumers' expectations of on-demand shopping, and for suppliers to stay competitive today, products and services need to be at the right place, at the right time, and at the right price and quantity. In The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain, Microsoft's cloud solutions architect Vinit Sharma, shows you how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing, storing, and analyzing data using technology that's easy on your stress level and budget.

You will discover that the same technology and big data driving the consumer side can be used to overcome challenges on the supply-chain side. Specifically, this focused and authoritative guide takes you on a practical tour of how cloud computing can enable companies to forecast demand for sales units in order to strategically respond. In-depth coverage ensures you understand the pros, cons, and all available options of cloud-computing capabilities in order to customize the optimal approach for individual organizations.

If you need or want to provide accurate sales forecasts for supply chain optimization, no other resource on the market gives you a more complete and comprehensive way to:

• Grasp real-time sales demand, customer sentiment about specific products, locational trends, effectiveness of promotions, and much more
• Elevate your ability to respond and operate by expertly leveraging a scalable and cost-effective platform for making data-backed decisions
• Fully prepare yourself for how it unfolds in the real world through case studies with illuminating detail from SAS Institute

From an introduction to cloud computing and the top public cloud vendors to seamlessly migrating to the cloud, The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain is your road map to bringing any supply chain up to state-of-the-art performance.