From the course: Implementing Supply Chain Management
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Increase visibility with a control tower
From the course: Implementing Supply Chain Management
Increase visibility with a control tower
- Supply chain management involves three steps. Planning, execution, and visibility. Visibility might be the most valuable of the three because the more you know about what's really happening in your supply chain, the better decisions you can make about what to do next. But visibility can also be the most challenging step. So let's dive in and look at how to increase the visibility in your supply chain. We can start by looking at one of our supply chain processes. Let's choose source, and say that you want visibility to inbound orders from one of your suppliers. In order to really know what's going on with an inbound shipment, you need purchase order information from your systems, shipping schedules from your supplier systems and status updates from your carriers. In other words, you need to integrate information from at least three systems in order to get visibility for that one link in your supply chain. There are…
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