From time to time I'm reading through the mails I get from my LinkedIn discussion group "Supply Chain Management Group ". I stumbled over a question, which made me very curious: What is your two word definition of supply chain? For your convenience I list some of the answers here: - absolute certainty - real-time communication - demand matching - customer satisfaction - managed predictability - risk management - optimized flow - value add - realistic commitments - etc. I tend to add two more answers from my side - realtime monitoring - arviem services Realtime cargo monitoring does not solve all these ideas 100% itself. But realtime cargo monitoring could contribute substantially. Or to quote one of our clients: This is a no-brainer! Read about the mentioned discussion on LinkedIn yourself: LinkedIn discussion
In a world faced with the prospect of tightening supplies, higher energy costs heightened geopolitical risk, and strained transportation networks, advanced supply chain technologies will become mission-critical for many more companies. The supply chain task is not an enterprise problem; it is an end-to-end network problem involving multiple enterprises. Therefore, the solution does not lie in fixing one link in the chain but in devising a community.