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U.S. firms will spend on average $4.8 billion a year through 2008 to tune their supply network processes. Consumer packaged goods and retail will invest the most, leading spending in hot areas like order and demand management. SAP and Oracle will join Microsoft and IBM in the innovation race to offer platforms that support firms’ migration to adaptive supply networks.
To assess the sagging economy''s impact on supply chain investments, Forrester spoke with 26 executives in $1 billion-plus manufacturing firms who are responsible for supply chain management (SCM). We found that users are scaling back future SCM investments as they struggle with the hodgepodge of existing planning tools like demand forecasting, and execution software like inventory management.
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