Supply Chain Visibility

Simply listing a typical company’s supply chain challenges could consume this column. However, there’s a small group of capabilities that are critical for supply chains in today’s volatile environment.

University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute reports on successful strategies for supply chain integration.University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute reports on successful strategies for supply chain integration.

University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute reports on successful strategies for supply chain integration.

The supply chain technology market is evolving toward platforms and equipment that optimize end-to-end processes. Four top technology analysts offer their unique insight into how the convergence of automation, data, and labor is moving us toward this utopian vision.

LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Mike Murphy, chief development officer of Centerpoint Properties, a Chicago-based industrial real estate company focused on the development, acquisition, and management of industrial property and transportation infrastructure, about what manufacturers need to do to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to making decisions about locating operations and the subsequent impact on the bottom line.

Powerful new tools could give us a better picture of what's going on across our supply chains.

Study: Companies relying on ERP for supply chain visibility fall short of goals for the extended supply chain - misalignment between IT and business executives results in 50% gap in inter-enterprise visibility capabilities.

A new report, Perspectives on Supply Chain, from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) says that the favorable economic conditions could present critical issues for the supply chain of the future.

Retailers expected to pursue real-time capabilities for customized, personalized and localized customer service.

GT Nexus will assist HP global operations in accelerating the realization of their supply chain transformation goals with a suite of business applications will deliver supply chain visibility across different HP product supply chains.

Regardless of what industry you're in, increasing the visibility of your supply chain is the only way to keep your company from ever facing the intense consumer backlash that comes with the discovery of counterfeit components cropping up in your supply chain.