supply-chain-visibility-excellence.pdf

Supply Chain Visibility Excellence Mastering Complexity and Landed Costs March 2012 Bob Heaney ~ Underwritten, in Part, by ~ Supply Chain Visibility Excellence: Mastering Complexity and Landed Costs Page 2 Executive Summary The increased complexity of global supply chains has led to longer lead Research Benchmark times, more pipeline inventory, and the need to control downstream and Aberdeen’s Research upstream logistics. In our most recent supply chain visibility survey, the Benchmarks provide an growing supply chain complexity was the top business pressure (44%). This, in-depth and comprehensive in turn, has contributed to increased supply chain management costs. It is look into process, procedure, not surprising that in a period of global expansion and business turmoil that methodologies, and visibility is taking center stage. This report focuses on gaining visibility into technologies with best practice critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost identification and actionable recommendations and service. But before a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely adapt to the information it collects. Best-in-Class Performance The following criteria were used to distinguish Best-in-Class companies: • 97% of orders delivered to customers complete and on time • 96% of orders received from suppliers complete and on time • Increased by 1.3% total lande