Supply Chain Visibility Knowledge Corner

Supply Chain Visibility Excellence: Fostering Security, Resiliency and Efficiency

Industry experts Aberdeen Group recently conducted a study and discovered that best-in-class companies:

• experienced a 3% decrease in supply chain execution cost as a percent of revenue (inbound /outbound transportation, pipeline and staged inventory and SC management costs);
• experienced a 3% decrease in total landed costs per unit handled;
• are between 19% and 42% more likely to respond to non-catastrophic supply chain disruptions within hours.

The report is called Supply Chain Visibility: Fostering Security, Resiliency, and Efficiency, and you can download it here.

Case Studies

Read about how leading companies are using visibility to their advantage:

Caterpillar: Using Visibility Technology to Signficantly Improve Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time

GT Nexus Provides Specialty Retailers Global Supply Chain Visibility

Cost Plus: Winning Strategies for Supply Chain Import Management — Visibility and Beyond

News

• 27

  Jun 2011

  Lloyd's List

  Catastrophic Forces of Nature Put Supply Lines Under Spotlight

  Cloud technology can help manage inventories when disaster strikes.

• 06

  Jun 2011

  World Trade

  Cloud Supply Chain: What It Is and Why Every Company Needs It

  In this webcast, Greg Johnsen, EVP and Co-Founder of GT Nexus discusses the opportunity cloud technology represents for supply chain management, touching on better economics, visibility, collaboration and agility.

• 03

  May 2011

  GT Nexus Press Release

  Del Monte Foods Expands Business with GT Nexus

  New services enhancing inventory visibility, supplier collaboration, ISF compliance and trade document automation

• 18

  Apr 2011

  DC Velocity

  See It Now, and Save

  "The on-demand delivery option makes visibility tools available faster and at lower cost than installed systems..."

• 11

  Jan 2011

  GT Nexus Press Release

  GT Nexus Adds Truck TMS Capabilities to Platform

  Customers already live with cloud-based freight spend management solution

• 01

  Nov 2010

  World Trade

  Supply Chain Visibility: Eliminating the Invisible

  More companies are joining cloud-based supplier networks where they can also begin to exploit new Internet communications technologies like social networking with their suppliers. However, end-to-end visibility of the supply chain remains a work in progress, because more technology adoption by companies still needs to occur -- and there are also non-technology factors that companies are contending with.

• 05

  Oct 2010

  GT Nexus Press Release

  Adisseo Operational on GT Nexus with Export Shipment Visibility and Control

  Cloud-based technology platform helps leading animal products company provide better service to global customers.

• 04

  Jan 2010

  World Trade

  Supply Chain Visibility and Efficiency Gets a Boost

  Supply chain management software will afford manufacturers the opportunity to better manage their inventory levels and increase the level of customer service by providing a high level of visibility.

• 01

  Dec 2009

  Aberdeen

  Supply Chain Visibility Excellence: Reduce Pipeline Inventory and Landed Cost

  This report provides insight into how best-in-class companies are achieving granular visibility across their supply chains to create processes that are strategic, responsive, and more cost-efficient than before.

• 08

  Dec 2009

  GT Nexus Press Release

  GT Nexus Announces Charming Shoppes Renews and Expands with Import Operating Platform

  On-demand platform provides apparel retailer inventory visibility, freight spend management, Customs document automation and import performance analytics

• 18

  Nov 2009

  Supply Chain Digest

  Can You Really See or Are You Supply Chain Blind?

  Take the seven-second global supply chain visibility test. If you aren't getting a full picture on time, every time, there is room for improvement.

• 01

  Jul 2009

  EAC

  Optimizing Global Trade in the 21st Century: Efficiency, Cost-effectiveness, and the Value-added SaaS Advantage

  This report describes the opportunity presented by applying value-added SaaS concepts and technology to the world of global trade, which, with its complex supply chain, industry-specific data and processes, multiple overlapping partnerships, and extreme requirements for visibility and efficiency, is ripe for this kind of opportunity.

• 18

  Dec 2008

  Fairplay

  E-fficiency Drive (Special Report)

  Increasing demands from high volume exporters and importers are spurring container e-commerce portals to diversify their services. Read about three different approaches and see how "GT Nexus... has much wider ambitions, forging a 'global trade and logistics portal'."

• 01

  Oct 2008

  American Shipper

  Global Trade Management Revolution Becomes Evolution

  The logistics industry's evolving use of GTM software reaps greater benefits as it transforms the way goods are moved internationally. A survey conducted by American Shipper and AMR Research found that GT Nexus is the most commonly used best-of-breed GTM software solution, behind only SAP, Oracle, or software that was developed in-house. And for planned systems, GT Nexus is the most popular after SAP and Oracle.

• 10

  Sep 2008

  Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

  Won't the Right Information Avert Any Kind of Risk?

  "One of the big challenges in supply chain is getting information, the right information, complete and in time," acknowledges Greg Johnsen, executive vice president of sales and marketing for GT Nexus of Oakland, Calif. "Whether the risk we're talking about is missing a ship window or not getting the right combination of products to a customer sales point and missing out on a very expensive promotion, what you're doing is missing out on revenue."

Resources

• Supply Chain Visibility Blog

  A blog about driving operational improvements through visibility. Here are the latest posts: