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Transportation Visibility vs. Supply Chain Visibility – What’s the Difference?

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As consumers and B2B customers increasingly expect more for less, businesses are challenged with offering faster shipping options, broader product assortments, and lower prices. Read more The post Transportation Visibility vs. Supply Chain Visibility – What’s the Difference?

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Why Expand the Definition of Supply Chain Visibility?

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One reason is that it’s not easy for most manufacturers to have visibility into the process before finished goods are shipped. For years, supply chain technology companies have touted real-time shipment visibility, or even promised complete supply chain visibility, while.

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How to Use Big Data to Improve Supply Chain Visibility

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Let’s explore some of the technology changes that organizations should consider as they align their corporate goals and objectives to utilize big data to improve their end-to-end supply chain visibility. There is more to supply chain visibility than a complex set of KPIs.

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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

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In 2020, the visibility had just expanded beyond tracking shipments to providing yard visibility. Calling the FourKites platform a real-time transportation visibility solution is a misnomer; This is a real-time supply chain visibility solution. The post What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

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The world’s fleet consists of approximately 6,000 ships. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year. Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

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But to get there, it’s imperative that industry leaders understand the significant work that’s still ahead – to be blunt, we have a long way to go – and continue to prioritize en supply chain visibility as a linchpin to achieving broader digital transformation goals. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Global Supply Chain Visibility is No Easy Task

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Supply chain visibility is no easy task – in fact, defining what it means can be a challenge in itself. What is your definition of supply chain visibility? This means you have to design a supply chain visibility solution around your trading partners and suppliers.