Live Global Supply Chain Situational Awareness for Life Sciences
Life Sciences supply chains are unique. The timeliness, quality, and security of the supply chain are critical to the health and welfare of individuals and large populations. Adding to the complexity are the risks inherent with cold chain shipping and the security of the products while in transit. Such parcels require 24/7 monitoring, ensuring patients’ […]
Supply Chain Situational Awareness: Project Approaches to Unlocking Value
As companies look to achieve live supply chain situational awareness (SCSA), three project approaches to deliver a solution and business value are emerging: In-house Best-of-breed solutions and partners for a project managed internally. Led by an IT team with support from a line of business users. Requires heavy system integration. Multi-vendor approach for core capabilities. […]
Digital Supply Chain Journey: Real-Time Monitoring to Live Situational Awareness
The continued development of real-time monitoring (RTM) capabilities such as RFID, IoT devices, GPS tracking, electronic logging devices (ELD), etc., can be a good thing for shippers who need to stay aware of the real-time location and condition of their shipment. As often the case, too much of a good thing presents a challenge. The […]
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 […]