The Future of EDI: Embracing a Complete Digital Core

In this episode, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, hosts Niki Founder, Hermann Fink, to continue their discussion on the future of supply chain management. The pair met when Hermann was working on graduate level supply chain management research prior to the pandemic, and now his studies are even more timely than they already were. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought supply chain vulnerabilities to the forefront of ongoing discussions, so John asks Hermann why more research isn’t going on surrounding the supply chain. Despite a shift from 5,000 years of traditional linear supply chain management, we don’t see a lot of discussion about the changes going on. John asks Hermann about how the digital core can be an impetus to use artificial intelligence (AI) to rebalance the supply chain when faced with unforeseen disruptions. They talk about how AI is shifting the way the digital core influences supply chain operations. Through the use of AI, supply and demand can be adjusted in real time without human intervention, thus moving away from the EDI system in place today and toward a more sophisticated system that can anticipate changes in the market and adjust supply chains.If you’d like to learn more about Niki, you can visit their website, and if you’d like to contact Hermann, the best way is via his LinkedIn page.