Digital Supplier - Helping SMEs operate in the post COVID-19 world in a sustainable way

我们不知道新冠疫情后的世界会是什么样子。但越来越明显的是，它将从根本上被重塑。保持社交距离和减少“接触机会”将是社交和工作场所安全的关键。说到工作场所，许多“在办公室”的要求是由文件、工具、机器和非便携式设备的位置驱动的。实体会议没有那么多限制。我们现在可以从任何地点把我们自己放大到一起开会。但这些其他文物通常位于现场或难以虚拟共享。全世界都认识到现在是数字化的时候了。我们已经看到了这种情况——大规模的。微软最近报告称，来自强制保持社交距离地区的云服务增长了775%。所有这一切的一线希望是，企业现在有机会（坦率地说，是被迫）重新设想如何完成工作。这带来了三个极其重要的副作用，首先是最明显的：1)**效率** -取代“纸质界面”提高了显著的流程效率。我们发现，与使用纸张相比，使用数据交换接收货物的流程步骤减少了69%，例如2)**环境** -去除纸张大大减少了对环境的二氧化碳负担，并有助于缓解水的消耗(10升水生产一页；4每一页贡献0.092磅的二氧化碳-这意味着22,870升的水和2104吨的二氧化碳每年仅从欧洲办公室的工作人员)3)**员工士气** -工人以前的劳动毫无意义的数据输入，现在可以成长为解决问题的人-这提高了士气，使工作更有趣，同时增加了他们的归属感鉴于机会的大小，问题变成：**我们如何为所有组织提供轻松数字化的机会，并提供参与数字驱动经济的手段？**我们的创新是**利用现有的供应链数据来消除纸张，重新设计流程，提高效率，为环境的可持续性做出贡献。**每个组织都有数据，但大多数组织很少使用这些数据。因此，我们建议探索：1。使用供应链数据生成数字化供应链文书工作——提供上述三个好处。确定将从该方法中获益最多的过程；重新想象这些具体流程如何在新冠疫情后的世界中重新运作。

We don't know what a post-COVID world will look like. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that it will be fundamentally re-shaped. Social distancing and reduced 'contact opportunities' will be key to social and workplace safety. When it comes to the workplace, many of the requirements to be 'in the office' are driven by the location of documents, tools, machines, and non-portable devices. Physical meetings are less of a constraint. We are now able to Zoom ourselves together from any location to meet. But these other artifacts are generally located on-site or are harder to share virtually. The world is recognizing that now is the time to digitize. We are already seeing this - _en masse_. Microsoft recently reported a 775% increase in cloud services from regions with enforced social distancing. The silver lining in all of this is that businesses now have the opportunity (and frankly speaking, are forced) to re-imagine how work gets done. Which drives three extremely important side effects, starting with the most obvious: 1) **Efficiency** - Replacing the 'paper interface' drives significant process efficiencies. We see a 69% process step reduction in receiving goods using data exchange vs. paper for example 2) **Environment** - Removing paper greatly reduces the CO2 burden on the environment and helps ease water consumption (10 liters of water to produce a page;4 each page contributes 0.092 lbs of CO25 - meaning 22,870B liters of water and 210.4B tons of CO2 from European office workers each year alone) 3) **Employee morale** - Workers that previously labored over meaningless data entry, can now grow into problem-solvers -- which improves morale by making the job more interesting while increasing their sense of ownership Given the size of the opportunity, the question becomes: **How do we give all organizations the opportunity to easily digitalize and provide the means to participate in a digital-driven economy?** Our innovation is to **use existing supply chain data to remove the paper, reimagine processes, and drive efficiencies to contribute to environmental sustainability.** Every organization has data but most organizations rarely do anything with that data. Therefore, we are proposing to explore: 1. Using supply chain data to generate digital supply chain paperwork - providing access to the three benefits above, 2. Identify processes that would benefit the most from this approach, and 3. Re-imagine how these specific processes can operate anew in a post-COVID world.