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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

Enterra Insights

3] Supply chain visibility, and decision support capabilities, require the right data from deep within the supply chain as well as other pertinent market signals. The better the data the better the visibility and the better the decision support. They write, “Think in expected values.

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2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the World Nigh?

Supply Chain Network

As Gartner predicts “Supplier risk will continue to be a major focus, and companies will look to technology for a scalable risk assessment and management solution” (Predicts 2012: Supply Chain Predictions: Talent, Risk and Analytics Dominate: Published: 18 November 2011). Supply Chain “clock speed”.

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Logistics Center of Excellence: Delivering Value to Organizations

Talking Logistics

Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. After all, you can’t source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can’t see. It extends well beyond visibility to give users integrated global logistics and trade compliance services. Source: GEODIS.