Beyond productivity: applying AI across value chains for agility and sustainability Lighthouses are driving transformational change across entire value chains, yielding benefits for both people and the environment. As the movement of goods has become more globalized, supply chains increasingly face myriad challenges, from catastrophic natural disasters and geopolitical tensions to market instability causing resources shortages and inflation. In response, Lighthouses are optimizing their supply chains for greater visibility to anticipate and manage disruption. They are taking a holistic lifecycle look at risk, with targeted solutions to drive resilience in product design, demand planning and logistics. Moreover, as industries are moving from a mass production model to one where customization is the norm, driven by diversity of customer preferences, Lighthouses are focusing on agility to gain a competitive edge. Sites adopting engineer-to-order (ETO) or configure-to-order (CTO) models must manage higher levels of complexity to provide customers with flexibility while delivering design and production at speed and scale. Lighthouses extend a risk view to sustainability and are actively reducing their environmental footprint within sites and value chains. Advances in big data analytics, cloud computing and IoT have inspired new ways of organizing the means of production – such as using heat waste as energy inputs – and are driving step-change improvements in resource efficiency. With supply chain emissions six times greater than scope 1 and 2 emissions,50 Lighthouses are looking beyond technology to promote circular models and reduce scope 3 emissions, collaborating both upstream with suppliers and downstream with customers to create closed-loop ecosystems. As industries are moving from a mass production model to one where customization is the norm, driven by diversity of customer preferences, Lighthouses are focusing on agility to gain a competitive edge.3 Global Lighthouse Network: The Mindset Shifts Driving Impact and Scale in Digital Transformation 24

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