There are 3 ways to increase value to shareholders: increase revenue, reduce costs, and reduce invested capital. Supply chain visibility accomplishes all three. More than just a nice tool, visibility is a way to drive value and growth.

With innovations like Dash and Prime Now, Amazon is reinventing retail fulfillment. But its upheavals go deeper. Amazon is looking at logistics end-to-end, and is poised to redefine infrastructure that has been in place for decades.

The Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference is one of the most important events in the industry. The key message this year: Supply chain is no longer about reducing costs and putting out fires. It’s about finding new forms of value and ways to service customers. This starts with digitizing processes in the supply chain and harnessing data in innovative ways to deliver new services to customers.