How Artificial Intelligence and Global Economic Factors Affect Inventory Optimization - Throughput - Eliminating Costly Bottlenecks in Supply Chain

While data may'want to be free' from a societal perspective, from a company perspective, private data, intellectual property and trade secrets are proprietary knowledge. Such knowledge, mated with domain expertise and smart execution, can be a competitive market advantage, which in a well-run, lean, continuously-improving operation, will ultimately provide market power. To protect data from leaking out, via both external and internal influences, a comprehensive, multi-layered security framework is always essential. And some of the first traces of security breaches, both physical and cyber, can be picked up in the minute signals hidden in the tea-leaves of operations. While IT (Information Technology) typically doesn't have the tools, budget or domain expertise to pick-up such signals across Operations, OT (Operations Technology) conversely has such knowledge but not the time or resources, as they're constantly focused on keeping operations up and running smoothly for the next hour, shift or day.