Market Perspectives

The 16th Annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize enterprises and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their enterprise. This prestigious award recognizes leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their enterprise’s success and championed improvements across their people, processes, information and technology. 

Ventana Research has awarded Granarolo S.p.A. using Board International its prestigious 2023 Operations and Supply Chain Digital Leadership Award. This award recognizes the individual, enterprise and technology that best exemplifies leadership in applications supporting operations or service and supply chain. All award finalists in the Operations and Supply Chain expertise area were considered for this prestigious award. 

A new generation of innovative digital technology is now available to enterprises to optimize operations and the supply chain, aligning it to customer demand and the fulfillment of products and services. Utilizing this technology can dramatically improve the value of products and services; failing to embrace them can decrease it. The effective application and use of analytics, collaboration, machine learning, planning and IoT can increase the agility of the supply chain across sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and logistics to ensure full value is realized from the inventory of products. 

Ventana Research selected Granarolo S.p.A. for the 16th Annual Operations and Supply Chain Digital Leadership Award for its commitment to a unified approach to planning and control processes. Through the use of Board, Granarolo S.p.A has unified data and analytics into a common planning platform with workflow and process automation to manage the financial and operational dynamics of the supply chain. Because of this, Granarolo is able to meet the unique requirements of its controlling to closing processes while generating scenarios of results based on operational and supply chain constraints. 

Operations and supply chain is an area for enterprises to go beyond transformation and work towards modernization and innovation. Board International addresses the challenges of helping enterprises unify the financial, operational and supply chain processes in a common platform. Enterprises with the need to unify decision making through planning and performance driven methods will appreciate the capabilities Board provides in its platform designed to manage processes through planning and analytics.  

Enterprises looking to maximize the value of business and technology investments across people and processes should consider how operations and supply chain can optimize digital potential. If you have not examined how Board International can help your enterprise, it is well worth your time. Congratulations, Mario Cavallo and Granarolo S.p.A., for your leadership. 

Ventana Research, now part of ISG, offers expertise and research-based guidance to those in operations and supply chain roles to help maximize the value of products and services through more effective planning and efficient operational execution. We provide education on best practices and assessment for adoption of applications. Change is required to maintain competitiveness and enable supply chain resilience and operational readiness to achieve the outcomes your enterprise deserves.