Building good visibility into your supply chain network makes sense. Analysts such as Aberdeen Group identify "visibility" as one of the primary areas for investment in 2009 and one of the key differentiators of companies with best in class logistics. However, visibility should not be confused with enhanced reporting. Reporting tells you what has happened, whereas visibility tells you what is happening.
Active Visibility goes even further, it tells you what is happening and allows you to act on the information yourself or by automating your responses.
If transport is delayed you'll be informed and can act on it. By showing you the locations and status of your goods everywhere from the suppliers of raw materials, through manufacturing, distribution and into your customer's hands, you have a total view of product availability. You will be able to perform in depth, timely analysis of inventory levels, transportation and carrier efficiency / performance, production queues; in fact whatever is most important to you, in order to eliminate inefficiencies and excess cost.
Imagine demand for a product massively exceeds local supply.
Arkenis Active Visibility can let you see all the inventory you have, whether it is in a warehouse or in transit. It will let you see if you have a cost effective transport method to reallocate and ship inventory to higher points of demand. Thus allowing you to ensure that demand is satisfied where and when it needs to be and at the right price and cost to serve.
That isn't just fixing a problem and saving money, that's seeing an opportunity and making money.
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