Everyone Claims to Have a Supply Chain Platform. Very Few Can Prove It

Executive thesis. “Platform” has become one of the least discriminating words in supply-chain technology. A common user interface or product bundle does not prove a common operating architecture.
Platform has become an overloaded term
Supply chain vendors describe their portfolios as platforms. Sometimes the label reflects a meaningful shared architecture. Sometimes it describes a collection of products under one commercial umbrella. Buyers should treat the word platform as a claim t