Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
Jabil IT Director Harish Manohar emphasizes the importance of simplifying enterprise technology and standardizing data processes before attempting to scale AI integration. The company's strategy focuses on creating a consistent data backbone across its global manufacturing sites to ensure that modernization efforts provide measurable business value.
Why it matters
This perspective addresses the common enterprise challenge of 'innovation debt,' where complex, disconnected legacy systems hinder the effective deployment of new AI technologies.
Simplifying and integrating enterprise technology can help companies move faster, respond to disruptions, and build a stronger foundation for AI, says Harish Manohar, SAP IT Director at Jabil.
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than 100 sites across more than 30 countries, the answer has been to make integration and simplification a priority.
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