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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s say visibility allows you to locate some bolts on a truck in Kansas and learn they will be late because of a raw materials shortage delaying your supplier, because one of their suppliers went bankrupt. In the last year, many companies saw their S&OP cycles shrink from monthly to weekly or even daily cadences.

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Pull Your Own Upset

Tompkins Blog

In 2011 Virginia Commonwealth shocked Kansas. In 2010 Butler overthrew Kansas State and Syracuse. We see this in S&OP, mergers and acquisitions, technology, e-commerce, and many other areas that have a huge impact on supply chain. Paper: Personalized Multichannel Logistics. Lesson learned: intimidation works.