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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

Logistics Viewpoints

FourKites, for example, can tell one of their shipper clients how long carriers are sitting on average at their warehouses and how this compares to the industry average; Or they can tell a shipper client the appointment reliability at one of that shippers customer’s distribution centers. The post What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

Is this the visibility shippers so desperately need? FourKites provides a supply chain visibility platform that can ingest location and status data from trucks, trains, ships, and other transportation assets, and then provide visibility to where a company’s goods are, along with predictive times of arrivals.

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Supply Chain Visibility: Beyond “Where’s My Truck?”

Talking Logistics

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years and achieving timely and accurate supply chain visibility has always been — and continues to be — a top priority for companies across all industries. It’s an ongoing challenge because supply chains continue to get more fragmented, more global, and more dynamic.

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Can Supply Chain Visibility Make Your Company King?

Enterra Insights

. … Supply chain leadership must be enabled to assess immediate tradeoffs between service levels and demand in order to make precise decisions and adapt to unexpected change. And that’s where supply chain visibility (SCV) plays a significant role.”[2] The Supply Chain Visibility Imperative.

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How Automation in the Supply Chain Will Make Employees More Strategic & Improve the Overall Supply Chain

Speaker: Adam Robinson, Director of Marketing, Cerasis

Improved Picking & Warehouse Efficiency thanks to Picking Autonomous Mobile Robots & Voice Commands. Importance of Integrating Automation for Improved Supply Chain Visibility. More Efficient Manufacturing as well as ability to fill the skills gap & make more strategic employees. February 6, 2019 11.00 AM PST, 2.00

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

But to get there, it’s imperative that industry leaders understand the significant work that’s still ahead – to be blunt, we have a long way to go – and continue to prioritize en supply chain visibility as a linchpin to achieving broader digital transformation goals. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Supply Chain Visibility in Foggy Times

Enterra Insights

Supply chain professionals, like military professionals, often find situational awareness an elusive goal. Over a decade ago, Cecere wrote, “As we enter the world where data is more available from trading partners, we can navigate across the supply chain into customer’s customers and supplier’s suppliers.