Guest blog: How to Prepare a Global Manufacturing IT Strategy for Digitization and Onshore Moves

By: Buyan Thyagarajan, Global Salesforce consultant

Manufacturing CIOs face a myriad of challenges including digital transformation, IT strategy, and managing ongoing supply chain issues. Often slow to adopt technology, the next 3 years will bring manufacturers into a cloud-based world with integrated data operations, predictive service contracts and dependable supply change management.

There are 3 key initiatives to focus on in 2022 to drive IT organizations toward digitization.

1. Envision a new future and assess for readiness, current state, and gaps
2. Build a data strategy that will involve governance, enabling future data streams, and experimenting with different predictive analytics initiatives.
3. Reassess your talent plan and identify new skills for digital initiatives and plan for upskilling or hiring new resources or working with experts on contractual ways.

By addressing impediments to your digital initiatives, you can ensure your resources–both physical and human–are ready for things like SAP S/4HANA upgrades, Salesforce CRM integration, and more. A trusted ecosystem of partners with prepackaged but customizable solutions is key–like what enosix offers.

Read more of Buyan’s blog at sforcemaximizer.com.