"Technological transformation in the supply chain is starting to affect every industry from commodities to retail. Companies that do not appreciate this emerging change and cannot adapt quickly to these shifts risk losing competitive advantage and having change forced upon them." 

Milind Balaji, Senior Supply Chain Manager, Georgia-Pacific

"Companies modernizing their IoT solutions to Industry 4.0 will be faced with several challenges. Most companies looking at Industrial IoT are attempting to bring cloud paradigms to edge computing. There is a place for the cloud in Industrial IoT, but intermittent network connectivity, latency, data volumes, cost, and data privacy present challenges that mean organizations need to look at distributed computing architectures which can address these concerns. Until companies begin to move decision making and workflow directly to the edge we don't really have an 'intelligent' edge as this happens over the next 3 to 5 years the digitization of the supply chain will begin to fulfill its promise." 

Stephen Goldberg, CEO, HarperDB

Juan Perez, chief information & engineering officer at UPS, explained how UPS uses IoT to improve its operations during his keynote presentation at IoT World 2018.