Efficiently
moving product from one location to another is
critical to optimizing a supply chain. Knowing where
a product is, where it is going and how it is going
to get there are essential components that managers
look at to better understand performance. What ties
all of these components together is there relationship to location, and how location drives business
decisions. To better understand those business
decisions it is important to visualize how location
affects each of the source and destination points in
the supply chain. In the following scenarios, supply
chain managers can learn how location intelligence
solutions provide an easy to use, intuitive look
into the supply chain, where problems and
opportunities can be easily identified and then
acted on.
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The
key to getting operational efficiencies out of the
supply chain lies in understanding where product is
at any given point in time and identifying the best
routes between destination. In the following sample
application, a manager can run daily reports that
graphically show product volume at various
warehouses in the supply chain. The larger icons on the map
indicate the amount of product available at each
warehouse. If need be, managers can drag-and-drop
excess inventory from one location to another,
automatically triggering of a transport ticket.
Managers can also see their distribution chain by
overlaying on the same map on-time delivery
performance between each warehouse and the various
factories or other destinations they serve.
Color-coding these routes makes it easy to drill down into
any problem areas to see what is causing the delay
and to begin taking action to rectify the problem.
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