Logistics Visibility Helps Overcome Business Obstacles

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amit_column_fcThe increasing complexities of the supply chain and growing customer demands pose a huge challenge for a logistics company. A more efficient and agile way of working can help the company overcome challenges. In order to so, the logistics company must address deficiencies in operational visibility, productivity, costs control and data refinement.

 

Today, innovative technology can help a logistics company streamline processes. These technologies provide the base for organizations to converge processes, enabling them to have better visibility and manage the entire gamut of interrelated processes and services more productively, making smart logistics a reality.

 

A common mistake companies make is believing that technology will do the work for them. What they fail to understand is that before rushing to implement any technology, the company needs to be prepared for the strategic and operational changes that would follow. Technology is just a tool and it is up to companies to know what to do with it. If this is understood, it will yield great results; otherwise it will just be an expense.

 

The purpose of technology is not just to automate the process and digitalize information. It serves a more important purpose of presenting actionable intelligence. This actionable intelligence gives the advantage of visibility across the organization and complete control over the processes. It also brings about more transparency and accountability.

 

Visibility is knowing activities of the company, at any given moment, whether planned or underway. It is about actionable intelligence or data that helps streamline company processes and eliminate obstacles.

 

Many companies do not have the internal IT infrastructure to support their dynamic information needs. This is an impediment to visibility as such companies are not in a position to collect data. The management has no means to analyze data, validate information, and disseminate it in a way that allows all stakeholders to leverage this visibility.

 

Today, powerful functionalities in logistics management software allow companies to have visibility and operational control. Companies acquire the ability to proactively push information to the appropriate people when key events that require action occur. Technology is helping companies become agile, flexible and use visibility as a competitive advantage.

 

Visibility is the key to navigate turbulent waters and steer the company toward brighter horizons. A mature visibility model promotes centralized practices backed by actionable intelligence. Visibility broadly accords companies the capability to interrupt business decisions and introduce new course of action necessary to overcome business obstacles.