129 INDUSTRIALS & MANUFACTURING quantities of data that Surgere needs to provide its clients with accurate and actionable insights. “We’re creating about 15 billion transactions a month that reside on Microsoft Azure around the world,” says Wappler. “Our work with Microsoft’s team has been incredible in this area, because they got a really good sense of the massive scale we’re working on. They put engineers into our shop and together we built an ecosystem so that Azure could ingest all of this data. Our software is able to then take all of that ingested data and apply it in such a way that our community of users can actually understand what’s happening and identify which areas to work on in order to solve their most important and urgent problems.” Despite the challenges of recent years, Wappler is optimistic that today’s technological advancements represent a transformative step forward for the way we see supply chains. “Those of us who have grown up in supply chain have always wanted to make these technologies a reality,” he says. “The solutions we’ve been dreaming about for such a long time – digital twins, the cloud and internet of things – are finally here. We should all feel optimistic about the future of supply chains as we begin to experience what those technologies can do.” Photo: Surgere
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