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As globalization increases, the world's supply chain has become substantially more interconnected and interacting; but most importantly, it becomes more complex. By breaking down into sections, supply chain is composed of "suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, distribution centers and retail outlets" [1] where raw materials are sent to manufacturing factories to produce and then shipped to warehouses for storage, then to retailers or customers. Just like data usage is rampant nowadays, supply chain has embraced the reliability and certainty of data by employing some sort of technologies that shape present and future technology trends. Particularly, in the setting of COVID-19, supply chain has been affected as a whole. China, known as the major source of finished goods and manufacturing markets, originated the limited input of these supplies as policies announced to temporally lockdown the factories, which further interrupted the whole global supply chain where those countries tend to outsource to China. Along with the factories lockdown, restaurants, nonessential companies and workers were into quarantine. Stores were filled with empty shelves; even larger businesses such as Costco, Walmart was facing the spike in demand. Some people lost their jobs; some people were working remotely. The operations have been disrupted accordingly; however, the realization of "how reliance on human labor making impossible to keep economy running"[2] appears with the inclination of technologies. The following technologies explain why they fit perfectly during the pandemic or even several years down the line.
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