The factory of the future is a supply chain strategy that transforms the role that manufacturing operations plays in supply chains and digital businesses. Smart manufacturing supports this strategy.

Smart manufacturing aligns with supply chain convergence, which is the need for supply chain organizations to synchronize and execute processes across multiple functional domains with minimal imbalance and conflict.

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Supply chain manufacturers are at a significant crossroad. Factories must not only support organizational endeavors for agility and growth, but also manage the ongoing impacts and risks from COVID-19. 

Regardless of approach, a clearly defined path to managing a pipeline of innovation projects, unleashing them across multiple sites and using its benefits to continue that pipeline, is required.

Bimodal is a practice that describes two separate but coherent ways of working that are required for manufacturing operations to build, scale and succeed with new capabilities. When executed well, both modes are inextricably tied to scale; which is repeatable performance that allows companies to move faster and deliver the value of smart manufacturing.