Live Supply Chain Situational Awareness: Final-Mile Delivery
The final mile stage of delivery for supply chains are the most costly, complex and critical as the experience and expectations of individuals and key customer groups are felt mostly during this stage. Adding to the complexity are the risks inherent with shipping disruptions and quality of products while in transit. Parcels require 24/7 monitoring, […]
Live Global Supply Chain Situational Awareness Journey
Can you independently monitor, measure, understand the behavior, and predict the performance of your global deliveries from a dock door to a customer? If your supply chain is global, then you must have transparency to its behavior, real-time, anywhere on the planet. However, the pandemic has shown that for many companies, a truly integrated digital […]
Live Supply Chain Situational Awareness: Temperature Controlled Logistics
The environment in which life sciences companies operate is increasingly complex, being driven by a more and more demanding healthcare agenda. The global need for innovative, cost-effective medicines continues to rise. At the same time, patients are demanding greater value for money, proven effectiveness of products, and access to information. To meet these demands, companies […]
Live Supply Chain Situational Awareness: Hurricane Larry Use Case
Hurricane Larry became the third major hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season According to the Freight Waves article, over the last week (week of 09/05/21), Larry became the third major hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season. It forced container ship captains to steer clear as the storm passed the island of Bermuda this week, headed […]
The Importance of Inventory Management in Supply Chains
The management of inventory is necessary for any company in order to avoid excess stock storage while at the same time ensuring customer demand is met. However, customers’ demand can be difficult to forecast due to; continuously evolving trends variability in customer preferences the need to maintain a sufficient supply of materials and goods to […]
The Value of a Good End-to-End Lead Time
About a month ago I ordered a bridesmaid dress online. Unfortunately, when I received the estimated arrival date it was 5 weeks from my purchase date! I understand that things take time to ship, but in the day in age of same day delivery 5 weeks just seemed way too long. Working in the supply […]
TransVoyant adds continuous analysis of real-time and predicted supply chain behavior to Tive and the Open Visibility Network
Leading in-transit visibility provider Tive and TransVoyant, the leader in global supply chain data fusion, business analytics and actionable intelligence, announced a partnership to deliver live supply chain situational awareness to the Open Visibility Network (OVN) to improve actionable, complete, and intelligent visibility and business insights. Most visibility journeys start by focusing on a single […]
The Benefits of Digitization in Cold Chain
Cold chain is big business and the stakes are high. The implications of a poorly maintained and monitored cold chain go far beyond monetary losses. Food or drugs that unknowingly fall outside of temperature tolerances can pose a hidden risk. They may become tainted with bacteria even though they may not be visibly spoiled. After […]
3 Things to Consider When Developing a Supplier Risk Mitigation Strategy
It’s nearly impossible to navigate a supply chain career without having experienced a supplier disruption at some point. Supplier disruptions come in many forms and range in severity. At best, a supplier disruption forces manufacturers to order materials from a secondary supplier for a brief period. At worst, they halt production for extended periods and […]
Live Global Supply Chain Situational Awareness Value
Have you considered the value associated with live global supply chain situational awareness (SCSA)? The pandemic exposed the lack of resiliency in supply chains and the focus now is directed towards this problem by boards and investors, making it the optimum time to aggressively move forward with a supply chain digital transformation starting with the […]