How to Evaluate Transportation Visibility Platforms

A Guide to Selecting the Right Solution for Your Supply Chain

Why Visibility?

Real-time transportation visibility has quickly become a core pillar of today’s supply chain technology stack.

In Gartner’s 2020 Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution Technologies Bart De Muynck explains;

“Supply chain visibility is no longer a “nice to have” for any organization, no matter the size, and now spans a multitude of vertical industries, use-case segments, and geographies.”

Advanced vs. Basic Visibility

The idea of visibility isn’t new, but the legacy solutions and approaches were designed to help organizations react, not predict.

These manual and basic tools don’t hold up in today’s landscape. Modern supply chains need a unified global view across their data, automated workflows, actionable insight, and improved collaboration with their customers, suppliers, and carriers.

Advanced visibility enables a supply chain to gain predictive insights across an entire transportation ecosystem, automate the full shipment lifecycle, and seamlessly leverage high-fidelity data and analytics through their systems of record.

What Questions to Ask Providers

Questions to Ask:

• What types of partnerships do they have with leading carriers?
• Do they have an integration with the technology providers you already rely on?
• Do they have integrations with leading TMS, ERP, and tech providers?

Potential Red Flags:

• Lack of carrier relationships
• Limited partnerships with TMS, ERP, and other tech providers
• A lack of the ability to natively integrate with your system of record

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