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

Logistics Viewpoints

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. Supply chain visibility often means “where’s my stuff,” or the ability to trace parts in transit from the manufacturer to the final destination. This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

And a FourKites survey of 350+ supply chain leaders tells us that the past few years of supply chain disruptions — including COVID-19, market volatility, global political conflict, material shortages and extreme weather events — drove 73% of respondents to begin investing in supply chain visibility, with 46% planning to invest more in 2023.

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ERP for process manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals vs. processing liquid waste in the mining industry. In the pharmaceutical example, it is a batch process manufacturing where the products are made as specified groups. In the chemical industry, certain chemicals can be dangerous if stored or transported close to each other.

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How Cold Chain Logistic Providers Build Trust with Traceability

Logistics Viewpoints

This leads to the need for traceability, the ability to track a specific item along every stage of the workflow, which is increasingly required due to regulatory, ethical and environmental issues. Take tracking produce, for example. Temperature-sensitive products beyond food also rely on traceability.

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DCSA Publishes Complete Framework of Just-in-Time Standards for Main Port Call Activities

Shipping and Freight Resource

Latest release of DCSA’s Just-in-Time Port Call Programme provides interface standards and API definitions for all 50 port call event timestamps. The interface standards allow carriers, ports, terminals and other service providers involved in a port call to exchange event data in a uniform way, enabling automated data exchange.

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Full supply chain visibility: How digital order management ensures flexibility

Forto

Germany’s logistics experts still track products mostly manually. The current situation in logistics is volatile: freight rates and capacities change daily, and individual means of transport are temporarily unavailable. Individual SKUs can be easily tracked and prioritized according to urgency.

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Full supply chain visibility: How digital order management ensures flexibility

Forto

Germany’s logistics experts still track products mostly manually. The current situation in logistics is volatile: freight rates and capacities change daily, and individual means of transport are temporarily unavailable. Individual SKUs can be easily tracked and prioritized according to urgency.