Definition
Technology that overlays digital information onto the physical world to enhance user experiences.
Learn more about Augmented Reality
In 2014, SAP Business Consulting conducted its initial study to understand companies’ visions for digital supply chain management. A lot has changed since then.
Augmented reality is offering new opportunities to train the supply chain workforce of tomorrow, and upskill the workforce of today.
While hybrid and online learning is changing education, technology is also helping experiential learning maintain a strong footing in educating the workforce.
Most of the conversation on the Metaverse surrounds when it might arrive and whether it will impact supply chains at all. Accenture argues it is already here, and the impacts on supply chain could be profound.
Perhaps the most emergent of the emerging technologies, the Metaverse has the potential to create new supply chain experiences in a digital world like we have never experienced before.
On this episode, Krutin Shah looks at the potential for AR and VR in DCs and factories. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
The advances of augmented reality must be recognized by manufacturers and supply chain partners. Beyond video games and movie experiences, AR is being used by schools and companies with reports predicting AR sales could exceed $80 billion by 2022.
In the second of two articles, VDC Research examines how new technologies, including vision systems such as Google Glass, could lead to more efficient distribution and logistics.
