Today's supply chain imperative is about proactively meeting the changing needs and circumstances of your company, effectively balancing Cost, Risk and Customer Service while minimising inventory levels and operating cost to free up scarce cash. To do that you need the visibility to know what's going on, moreover, you need to be able to control what's going on.
You need more than visibility, you need Active Visibility.
- Active Visibility goes beyond efficiency and cost reduction into control.
- It allows you to identify and resolve issues before they become problems.
- It allows you to take action and, uniquely, to automate actions.
Anticipate Problems:
An effective supply chain must be responsive. Problems must be dealt with quickly and effectively, or preferably anticipated and prevented. By monitoring all the critical supply chain events such as missed collections or production shortages you can minimise risk of failure, unhappy customers and lost sales. You can only do that if you can see what's going on, as it happens.
Take Action:
Responding to problems reduces costs, responding to business opportunities makes money. The true value of active visibility is in being able to see where opportunity lies. It's in the ability to intervene in the supply network to optimise the business benefit to your company. Active Visibility goes beyond monitoring and alerting, it has built in workflow to automate key decisions and take action on your behalf
Improve:
Being able to analyse, in depth, the performance of your entire supply network allows you to see where your time to cash is lost and improve it. From your suppliers production queues, through raw material levels, finished goods levels, inventory in transit to transportation costs. If it's important to you, Active Visibility can be configured to collect, analyse and display the information.