Beyond Visibility: How to build a supply chain that thinks
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The document discusses the concept of supply chain visibility, emphasizing its importance for managing complex global operations. It highlights advancements in technology, such as sensor innovations and big data analytics, that enable real-time tracking and insights throughout the supply chain. The white paper promotes a 'cognitive supply chain' approach that enhances efficiency and proactive problem-solving.
Beyond Visibility: How to build a supply chain that thinks
- 1. Beyond Visibility How to Build a Supply Chain That Thinks
- 2. Visibility. Everyone wants it. But what is it?
- 3. Ultimately, visibility is about knowledge. Knowing what happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen.
- 4. Some kinds of knowledge are easy to come by. But often, the most important knowledge is the hardest to find.
- 5. When you’re managing a complex, global, multi-modal supply chain, visibility is everything. It’s the power to know the location and condition of everything, everywhere.
- 6. In the past, knowledge has been limited by access to data and the ability to turn that data into actionable insight. But today, a handful of technological advances have finally come together enabling managers to track every component, from source to arrival in the hands of the end consumer.
- 7. Don’t miss the boat! In our new white paper, we explore how modern supply chains can achieve true visibility, predicting and eliminating problems before they occur. Download Beyond Visibility: How to Build a Supply Chain That Thinks today.
- 8. A Bit of History: In 1792, Napoleon pioneered the world’s first real-time information network: a system of 500 relay towers transmitting data across Europe via visual code.
- 9. 200 years later, RFID was all the rage. Everyone from Wal-Mart to the U.S. Army tried RFID-based tracking systems to gain visibility into their supply chains. But these systems were expensive and labor-intensive, and they struggled with the torrents of data produced by a global supply chain.
- 10. But today, new technologies are enabling previously impossible levels of insight into the supply chain.
- 11. Innovations in sensor technology are enabling devices with lower power needs and longer lifetimes.
- 12. Cellular networks span the entire globe, connecting over 5 billion users and counting.
- 13. Most importantly, big data technology enables us to analyze and draw insights from the massive amounts of data generated by modern supply chains.
- 14. Leveraging these technologies to draw real-time actionable insights is giving early adopters a competitive edge, enabling the use of Lean and Six Sigma principles in concert.
- 15. End-to-end visibility means you can simultaneously reduce waste and implement preventative measures based on actual data and predictive analytics.
- 16. We call this the COGNITIVE SUPPLY CHAIN.
- 17. It facilitates exact timing of deliveries and proactive responses to delays across complex, global supply chains.
- 18. “No matter where our goods are, we can locate them, identify how they’re treated on the inbound or outbound chain, and automate many transactions along the delivery chain.” -- Karl Kirschenhofer VP Ops Venture, Nokia
- 19. The Cognitive Supply Chain is changing the game in logistics. It’s impacting every part of the modern enterprise, and enabling us to go Beyond Visibility.
- 20. To learn more, download the full white paper. Beyond Visibility: How to Build a Supply Chain that Thinks 720.772.8483 | team@tive.co | tive.co